Stout v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2011
4 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 Folse v. American Well Control · State ex rel. Green v. Clark · 509 So. 2d 681 - Romero v. Romero · 616 So. 2d 221 - Ellefson v. Ellefson · Wagner v. Wagner
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“4. The parties agree and stipulate that LARRY GENE STOUT, SR. will pay permanent alimony to MAUREEN JOYCE STOUT, as follows: a. In the sum of $2,200.00 per month for approximately eighteen (18) months after the judgment of divorce is rendered, or until May 31, 1997; b. In the sum of $2,000.00 per month for the twelve-month period after the period described in a. above, being from June 1, 1997 through May 31, 1998; c. In the sum of $1,500.00 per month for a period of approximately five and one-half (5 1/2) years following the period described in b. above, or until the mortgage note with Hibernia National Bank on the home at 751 Redwood Drive, Lake Charles, Louisiana, has been paid in full, which will be on or about November, 2003; d. In the sum of $1,000.00 per month, commencing approximately December 1, 2003, or the month following payment in full of the mortgage on the home, until such time as MAUREEN JOYCE STOUT dies or remarries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[O]ther evidence, including but not limited to the testimony of the parties, a community property settlement, or a written stipulation, is admissible to determine the intent of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is specific as to the duration of alimony, but is silent on whether the parties intended to prohibit modification based upon a change in circumstances.”
1 later decision 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.