Scanlon v. Scanlon’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Spingola v. Spingola (1978), Ruggles v. Ruggles (1993)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough · 42 Cal. 2d 55 - Flynn v. Flynn · 42 Cal. 2d 36 - Dexter v. Dexter · 42 Cal. 2d 49 - Fox v. Fox · 130 Ohio St. 214 - Holloway v. Holloway
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no showing that the property division would have been different if the support provision had not been made; no showing that the amount of support was determined out of any consideration of the value of any property the parties may have received under the terms of the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.