44 Md. App. 435 - Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Blaine v. Blaine (1994), McCann v. McCann (1983)
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 State v. Roll and Scholl · Winkel v. Winkel · Waters v. Waters · Bender v. Bender · Slacum v. Slacum
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is, of course, well settled in this State that a court of equity may upon a proper petition to do so modify a decree for alimony or child support at any time if there has been shown a material change in circumstances that justify the action. Jackson v. Jackson, 272 Md. 107, 111 , 321 A.2d 162 (1974); Stansbury v. Stansbury, 223 Md. 475, 477 , 164 A.2d 877 (1960); Winkel v. Winkel, 178 Md. 489, 498-499 , 15 A.2d 914 (1940); Slacum v. Slacum, 158 Md. 107, 111 , 148 A. 226 (1930); Lott v. Lott, 17 Md.App. 440 , 302 A.2d 666 (1973). It is equally well settled that, as with an original award, the decision on the question of modification of the original award is left to the sound discretion of the chancellor and will not be disturbed unless that discretion was arbitrarily used or the judgment, clearly wrong. Lott v. Lott, supra.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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