Seal v. Seal’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2011
12 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 Batson v. Batson · Duncan v. Duncan · Ingram v. Ingram · Jones v. Jones · Threadgill v. Threadgill
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From a reading of [Tenn.Code Ann.] § 36-5-101 it may be presumed that property received by an alimony recipient in the division of marital property might produce income. Absent the Husband establishing that this income was unanticipated or unforeseen, any dividend or interest income earned by an alimony recipient from stocks or bonds received under a property settlement agreement should not be considered as a factor constituting a substantial and material change in circumstances to support a reduction in alimony payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jekot v. Jekot
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.