Davidson Davidson v. A Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Brody v. Brody (1993), Susan Cummings v. Lawrence B. Cummings (2001)
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Federal Power Commission v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co. · Jordan v. Southeast National Bank · Benich v. Benich · Byram v. United States · Neiman-Marcus Group, Inc. v. Dworkin
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow a spouse to set up an intricate and unambiguous divorce settlement, carefully distinguishing certain periodic payments, called alimony, from the division of marital property, and consistently taking advantage of this characterization for tax purposes, only then to declare that the payments truly represented a division of property, would be a legal affront to both the bankruptcy and tax codes. To uphold the discharge of those payments in bankruptcy would reward an admitted manipulation tantamount, at best, to deception.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to a spouse, former spouse, or child ... for alimony to, maintenance for, or support of such spouse ... in connection with a separation agreement, divorce decree ... but not to the extent that— (A) such debt is assigned to another entity ... or (B) such debt includes a liability designated as alimony, maintenance, or support, unless such liability is actually in the nature of alimony, maintenance, or support....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... quasi-estoppel forbids a party from accepting the benefits of a transaction or statute and then subsequently taking an inconsistent position to avoid corresponding obligations or effects”
2 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.