Harry J. Coman v. Sylvia R. Coman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2013
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · Moore v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[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”).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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