Albert B. Poe v. Margaret G. Poe’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Hodge v. Hodge (1975), Charles v. Charles (1986)
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Burch v. Burch · Viles v. Viles · Del Peschio v. Del Peschio · Del Peschio v. Del Peschio
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he amount of property of each spouse, the circumstances surrounding the parties, the wife’s necessities, and the husband’s financial ability, the physical condition of the parties, the nature of their life together, and in these modern times the wife’s independence and ability to earn her own way, which must all be considered by the court in the exercise of its discretion in awarding or denying alimony. Feddersen, 68 F. Supp. 2d at 595 (citing Coman v. Coman, 492 F.2d 273, 278 (3d Cir. 1974). Thus, the touchstone for alimony determinations is a finding of need of one party and the ability of the other to pay for those needs. See id.; see, also, Poe v. Poe, 409 F.2d 40, 42-43 (3d Cir. 1969) (“statutory authorization of alimony does not necessarily mean that a wife is entitled to such an award in every case”).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Whenever a marriage is declared void or dissolved the court may, without regard to any determination that the breakdown of the marriage was the fault of one party or the other, further decree — (3) for the recovery for a party determined to he in need thereof an amount of money in gross or in installments, as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of such party;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever a marriage is . . . dissolved the court may . . . further decree: (3) for the recovery for a party determined to be in need thereof an amount of money in gross or in installments, as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of such party. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alleyne v. Alleyne
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.