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Dame v. Dame’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
May 2011
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2011

13 state decisions

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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 Lindsay v. Lindsay · 41 Colo. App. 116 - In Re Marriage of Gallegos · Cawood v. Cawood · Duff v. Duff

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[u]nless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Messer v. Messer · John v. John
  2. “`Hence, we conclude that where, as here, maintenance is in a fixed and determinable amount to be paid either in a lump sum or is for a specific amount to be paid over a definite term, unless the power to do so is expressly reserved by the court, it is alimony in gross and has the finality of a judgment, and thus, is not subject to modification on the basis of a change in circumstances ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Messer v. Messer
  3. “KRS 403.250(1) states in part: Except as otherwise provided in subsection (6) of KRS 403.180, the provisions of any decree respecting maintenance may be modified only upon a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms unconscionable. (Emphasis added.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Woodson v. Woodson

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.