Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably White v. White (1979), Compton v. Compton (1980)
26 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 Smith v. Smith · Williams v. Havens · Embree v. Embree · Loveland v. Loveland · Blankenship v. Brookshier
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pJresumed to merge into the divorce decree when, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the parties enter into an agreement in contemplation of divorcee and thereafter request the district court to approve, ratify, or confirm the agreement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is our belief that in its attempts to determine the intent of the parties regarding integration or non-integration of the provisions of separation agreements, this Court has been forced to indulge in technical hair-splitting. In some cases the court has held agreements to be integrated . . . while in other cases agreements that were substantially the same but for a word or two have been held to be non-integrated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Keeler v. Keeler · White v. White“"When two people are divorced from each other, as we have said herein, there are certain obligations incumbent upon our courts. The first and most important thereof is to make provision for the custody, support and maintenance of the minor children, if any, of the parties. Thereafter the court should arrive at an equitable distribution of the community property accumulated by the parties in consideration of all the circumstances. Thereafter the parties should go their own way with a dissolution of all obligation and debts to each other. Unfortunately, ideal situations do not always exist and the situation must be modified according to the wisdom and discretion of the trial judge." (Emphasis added.) Id. at 388 , 462 P.2d at 53 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shill v. Shill
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.