Lancaster v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Bogan v. Bogan (2001), Batson v. Batson (1988)
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 Orr v. Orr · Fisher v. Fisher · 29 Tenn. App. 580 - McClung v. McClung · Aleshire v. Aleshire · Shackleford v. Shackleford
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alimony is not and never has been intended by our legislature to be punitive. See McClung v. McClung, 29 Tenn.App. 580 , 198 S.W.2d 820, 822 (1946). Nor do we believe it was intended simply as an award for virtue. It is not designed to serve as an annuity for the wife; or as Professor Clark has stated “[t]he purpose of alimony is to care for the wife’s needs after divorce, not to provide her with a life-time profit-sharing plan.” H. Clark, Law of Domestic Relations § 14.9(4) (1968).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lindsey v. Lindsey · Smith v. Smith“If [Mrs. Lancaster] did nothing but invest these fimds in tax free bonds yielding 10%, her annual income would be $50,000 without the least invasion of the corpus. If Mrs. Lancaster really believes she must have all of the luxuries heretofore specified, she has several alternatives. She can make a modest annual invasion of the corpus — and it is of a size that based upon her own list of needed expenditures, several years would be required to significantly reduce the fund. She can attempt to obtain a higher yield on her investments— though there are obviously certain economic risks inherent therein. Or she may go to work on a full or part-time basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith
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.