9 Ohio App. 3d 195 - St. Clair v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2022
5 federal appellate · 7 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 Wolfe v. Wolfe · 2 Ohio App. 3d 212 - Freeman v. Westland Builders, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing in the decree which would indicate that the alimony award was intended as anything other than for the support of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Murphy“[s]upport alimony is indefinite in amount, as contrasted with the definitive nature of property settlement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Murphy“further provided for a property division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Murphy
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.