Beckmann v. Beckmann’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Baker v. Baker (1955), 241 Mo. App. 121 - Daugherty v. Nelson (1950)
90 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · 223 Mo. App. 834 - Sanders v. Sanders · White v. White · Minick v. Minick
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule has been announced with good authority that a court may not award custody of a child where it has no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant and the child is not within the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weiler v. Weiler“a new trial may be granted as to alimony alone without disturbing the judgment of divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Carr“a judgment of alimony is never final in the sense it cannot be changed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Carr
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.