Diment v. Diment’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1999
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Ex parte Spencer · Mathews v. Mathews · Hicks v. Hicks · Jefferson v. Burgess · Wilbanks v. Wilbanks
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) In any divorce decree entered after December 31, 1967, which provides for periodic alimony payments, the Court, at the time of entering the original decree, only, may designate all or a portion of each such payment as support, and all or a portion of such payment as a payment pertaining to a division of property. Upon the death of the recipient, the payments for support, if not already accrued, shall terminate, but the payments pertaining to a division of property shall continue until completed; and the decree shall so specify. The payments pertaining to a division of property shall be irrevocable. * * * The Court shall also provide in the divorce decree that any such support payments shall terminate after remarriage of the recipient, unless the recipient can make a proper showing that said support is still needed and that circumstances have not rendered payment of the same inequitable; provided, however, that unless the recipient shall commence an action for such determination within ninety (90) days of the date of such remarriage, the Court shall, upon proper application, order the support judgment terminated and the lien thereof discharged. * * * »”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shea v. Shea · Hubbard v. Hubbard“As we interpret the above statute, in any divorce decree “which provides for periodic alimony payments,” the court “may designate all or a portion of each such payment as support,” but if the trial court does not so designate, then such periodic payments shall continue in full until the entire amount awarded is paid regardless of the death or remarriage of the recipient.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Cox · Shea v. Shea
How this case has been treated — in progress
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