Stubbe v. Stubbe’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Francis v. Francis · Stubbe v. Stubbe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Court ordered alimony, available in most other jurisdictions, is not available in Texas as it contravenes Texas public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hagen v. Hagen
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.