Albin v. Albin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Shaver v. Shaver (1984), Warner v. Warner (In Re Warner) (1980)
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Singleton v. Wulff · Turner v. Safley · Sistare v. Sistare · United States v. Patrin · Eaton v. Davis
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the obligations of payment terminate upon the death of either spouse or upon the marriage of the spouse bene-fitted by the payments; 2. Whether the obligation terminates when the dependent children reach majority or are otherwise emancipated; 3. Whether the payments are made directly to the spouse; 4. The relative earnings of the parties; 5. Evidence that the spouse relinquished rights and support in return for the payment of the obligations; 6. The length of the parties’ marriage and the number of dependent children; 7. The document itself and any inferences which could be drawn and the place ment of specific provisions in the document; 8. Whether the debt was incurred for the immediate living expense of the spouse; 9. Whether the payments were intended for the economic safety of the dependent; 10. Whether the obligation is enforceable by contempt; 11. Whether payments are payable in installments over a substantial period of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“1. The label given to the payments; 2. The context or location of the disputed provision in the decree; 3. The parties’ negotiations and understanding of the provision; 4. Whether a lump sum or periodic monthly payments were provided for; 5. The relative earning power of the parties; 6. Whether the recipient spouse would be entitled to alimony under state law; 7. Whether interest accrues on the entire debt or only on the monthly payments past due; and 8. Whether the debtor’s obligation of payment terminates on the death or remarriage of the recipient, or on the death of the debtor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(f)ederal bankruptcy law is not the source of these obligations; it takes them as it finds them and, when necessary, characterizes the legal relations existing between the parties for its own purposes.”
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.