Maitlen v. Maitlen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Shaver v. Shaver (1984), In the Matter of Rodney Coil Appeal of Rodney Coil
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Waller v. Florida · Goggans v. Osborn · Mary Lee Nichols v. Benton M. Hensler
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the settlement agreement includes provision for payments to the ex-spouse; (2) whether there is any indication that the [award to the obligee spouse] was intended to balance the relative income of the parties; (3) whether the [award to the obligee spouse] is in the midst of provisions allocating property; and (4) whether the [award to the obligee spouse] describes the character and method of payment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept the referee's (Bankruptcy Judge's) findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous, and shall give due regard to the opportunity of the referee to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
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.