336 Pa. Super. 502 - VanKirk v. VanKirk’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably 417 Pa. Super. 592 - McMahon v. McMahon (1992), 351 Pa. Super. 205 - Trumpp v. Trumpp (1985)
1 federal appellate · 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
Relies on 289 Pa. Super. 405 - Litwack v. Litwack · Commonwealth v. Crenshaw · In Re Estate of Breyer · 291 Pa. Super. 491 - Kleintop v. Kleintop · Commonwealth v. Acchioni & Canuso, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agreement in this case made no provision for the cessation of payments in the event appellee cohabited with a man. In fact, the agreement does not call for the termination of payments in the event of her remarriage. Instead, it clearly provides for payments for eighteen months in exchange for Mrs. VanKirk’s promise not to pursue her claim for equitable distribution. There is no suggestion that appellee did not meet her end of the bargain and we will not permit appellant, who benefited from her promise, to renege on his.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The alimony payments in this case, while enforceable as a court order ... are not the result of an “award” of alimony by the court, but rather are the result of an agreement between the parties. The court did not enter an alimony award pursuant to the terms of Section 501 of the Act; it merely agreed to the entry of an order that reflects the agreement of the parties as to their respective property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 507. Bar to any alimony No petitioner shall be entitled to receive any award of alimony where such petitioner has entered into cohabitation with a person of the opposite sex who is not a member of the petitioner’s immediate family within the degrees of consanguinity subsequent to the divorce pursuant to which alimony is being sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.