Waller v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Long v. Calhoun (1983), Warner v. Warner (In Re Warner) (1980)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Wetmore v. Markoe · Avery v. Avery · Desjardins v. Desjardins · 193 F. Supp. 210 - Desjardins v. Desjardins
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as . (7) are for alimony due or to become due, or for maintenance or support of wife or child, .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.