Funnell v. Funnell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2006
10 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 Murphy v. Shelton · Dobry v. Dobry · Poloke v. Poloke · Barnett v. Barnett · Parsons v. Estate of Parsons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * "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 court shall also provide in the divorce decree that any such support payments shall terminate after the remarriage of the recipient nok me ok”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“stems from the common-law right of the wife to support from her husband.” Funnell v. Funnell, 1978 OK 69 , ¶ 13, 584 P.2d 1319, 1322 . In Poloke v. Poloke, 1913 OK 149, ¶ 4 , 130 P. 535 , 37 Okl. 70 , the court defines alimony as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Ray“alimony” comes from the Latin “alimonia,” meaning sustenance, and denotes "the sustenance or support of the wife by her divorced husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Ray
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.