In the Matter of Rodney Coil Appeal of Rodney Coil’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Long v. Calhoun (1983), Long v. West (1986)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 the Matter of Floyd Raymond Woods Appeal of Judith Jean Crabb Objecting · Maitlen v. Maitlen · Squillacote v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 344
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 78 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A discharge under §§ 727, 1141, or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt— (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, 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....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An indebtedness for a former spouse for alimony, maintenance, or support of the spouse or the couple’s children which is memorialized in the divorce decree is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. 11 U.S.C. Section 523 (a)(5). An indebtedness in the divorce decree that merely divides the marriage property, however, is dischargeable.””
2 later decisions 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.