Combs v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2018
14 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 Reichle v. Reichle · Wilhoit v. Wilhoit · Williams v. Williams · Lydic v. Lydic
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is something distasteful in requiring one to subsidize a former spouse, in his or her subsequent cohabitation .it is insignificant whether the rule terminating maintenance be grounded upon moral circumstances, upon the practical consideration that remarriage or non-marital cohabitation removes the necessity of support or upon some neutral principle of law ... [.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless otherwise agreed in writing or expressly provided in the decree, ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lockhart v. Lockhart
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.