Huffman v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2012
15 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on Bingert v. Bingert · Eberhart v. Eberhart · Muehler v. Muehler · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Gabel v. Gabel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To modify spousal support, circumstances must have changed materially.... Slight, or even moderate, changes in the parties' relative incomes are not necessarily material.... `Material change' means something which substantially affects the financial abilities or needs of a party.... The reason for changes in income must be examined, ... as well as the extent that the changes were contemplated at the time of the agreed decree."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. Wheeler
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.