4 Conn. App. 489 - Eldridge v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Amodio v. Amodio (1999), Eldridge v. Eldridge (1998)
43 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 Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Weiman v. Weiman · McGuinness v. McGuinness · Koizim v. Koizim · Timm v. Timm
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is contemplated at this time that the defendant will continue her present part-time employment and that in the future, she will be employed full-time, however, such employment shall not be considered a change of circumstances until her gross annual income from earnings shall exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars. One-half of the amount by which her earnings exceed Twenty-five Thousand Dollars shall be deducted from the periodic unallocated alimony and support hereinbefore awarded." (Memorandum of Decision, page 6)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a provision which precludes or restricts a later court's power to modify financial orders is clear and unambiguous, however, it will be upheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Provisions which preclude modification of alimony tend to be disfavored.”
2 later decisions 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.