Doerflinger v. Doerflinger’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Cates v. Cates (1991), Mika v. Mika (1987)
63 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 In Re the Marriage of Powers · LoPiccolo v. LoPiccolo · Pederson v. Pederson · Marriage of Royal v. Royal · Sansone v. Sansone
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n award of maintenance ordered paid in a single installment and an award of a predetermined amount for maintenance payable in multiple installments during a pre-set term .... [possess] the same attributes of adjudication and ... a decree ordering periodic maintenance payments which will cease on a designated future date is the equivalent of a lump sum award. Neither is subject to modification on a change of circumstances but can be reviewed only by appeal of the original judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] gross award may be a lump sum payment or the product of periodic payments due to expire on a predetermined date. The common characteristic of both is that the trial court rejected a necessity of the dependent spouse for indefinite continuation of support and has decreed instead the payment of limited sum during a period of readjustment....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Justice does not require provision of support to a spouse who is or may be prepared to become self-supporting.'”
2 later decisions 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.