Crist Crist v. S Crist H Pinkerton H Pinkerton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Sun Banks of Florida Inc v. Sun Federal Savings and Loan Association, Gaston Snow Alfred Bianco v. Robert a Erkins & Bernadine Erkins (2001)
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Bolling v. Sharpe · Taylor v. Louisiana · Craig v. Boren · Reed v. Reed
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen disposition of a federal question requires reference to state law, federal courts are not bound by the forum state's choice of law rules, but are free to apply the law considered relevant to the pending controversy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Numerous factors support the reference to Florida law. The Pinkertons were married in Florida, resided in Florida and were divorced in Florida. The ... agreements were all submitted to the Florida court for approval and inclusion in the Florida divorce decree.’’); FDIC v. Alvarez Lau, 681 F.Supp. 977, 979 (D.P.R.1988) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(5) to a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor, for alimony to, maintenance for, or support of such spouse or child, in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree, or property settlement agreement, but not to the extent that .. . (B) such debt includes a liability designated as alimony, maintenance, or support, unless such liability is actually in the nature of alimony, maintenance, or support.””
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.