Rockefeller v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Artman v. Hoy (2007), Hall v. Hall (2013)
2 district · 36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 151 · 26 U.S.C. § 71
Relies on Ferguson v. Green · Pryor v. Pryor · 1 Ark. App. 75 - Andres v. Andres · Bachus v. Bachus · Lively v. Lively
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a decree is entered, the court shall make orders concerning the alimony of the wife or the husband and the care of the children, if there are any as are reasonable from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to by the parties, the liability for alimony shall automatically cease upon the earlier of: (A) the date of the remarriage of the person who was awarded the alimonyf.] [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Artman v. Hoy
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.