Yeates v. Yeates’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 31 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably In Re Robert J. Young and Donna M. Young, Debtors. Fowler Brothers v. Robert J. Young and Donna M. Young (1996), Mullet First Bank of Colorado Springs v. Mullet (1987)
23 federal appellate · 31 district · 10 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Long v. Calhoun · Pauley v. Spong · Shaver v. Shaver
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually in the nature of alimony, maintenance, or support.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a] written agreement between the parties is persuasive evidence of intent,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An obligation that serves to maintain daily necessities such as food, housing and transportation is indicative of a debt intended to be in the nature of support.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.