Bingham v. Bingham’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2024
15 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 Jones v. Jones · A.J. MacKay Co. v. Okland Construction Co. · English v. English · Hall v. Hall · Mortensen v. Mortensen
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The spouse's demonstrated need must ... constitute the maximum permissible alimony award.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e agree with defendant that the court should not have awarded plaintiff more than her established needs required, regardless of defendant's ability to pay[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[oluly those expenses necessary to allow the business to operate at a reasonable level may be deducted from gross receipts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrani v. Barrani
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.