Gillespie v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably McNelis v. Bruce (1961), Simpson v. Superior Court (1960)
47 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 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough · North v. North · Lazar v. Superior Court · McFadden v. McFadden · 130 Ohio St. 214 - Holloway v. Holloway
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to give the lower court jurisdiction to modify the decree fixing a sum certain to be paid to the defendant [wife] as alimony, the alimony paid must not be a consideration for a property settlement since this would be the defendant’s share in the property and not subject to modification by the lower court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Of course the court may, and ordinarily will, accept and adopt in its decree the terms of any property settlement submitted to it by the parties, but it does not have to do so, and if it does it is none the less the court’s decree that gives such settlement its validity.” 50 Ariz. at 433-34 , 72 P.2d at 942 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Reading section 8 supra of the agreement together with the divorce decree supra it is clear that it was the intention of the parties that it should become a part of the decree, and that the court made it a part of the decree by reference thereto.” 74 Ariz. at 4 , 242 P.2d at 839 .”
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.