Estes v. Estes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a judgment awarding the wife a stated monthly sum for joint support of herself and a minor child is not vitiated pro tanto upon the child reaching majority
• a judgment awarding the wife a stated monthly sum for joint support of herself and a minor child is not vitiated pro tanto upon the child reaching majority
• where an agreement is incorporated into a divorce decree, the judgment is conclusive between the parties and cannot be altered by purported prior or contemporaneous agreements which would alter or modify the terms of the judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Finley v. Finley
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-05-30· cited 164×
• Stroman v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1987-02-23· cited 42×
• Fortson v. Fortson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1943-04-15· cited 36×
• Langston v. Nash
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1941-06-16· cited 30×
• Anthony v. Penn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-03-12· cited 26×
• Smith v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-03-08· cited 21×
• Pumphrey v. Pumphrey
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-02-17· cited 21×
• Gordon v. Ary
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1962-06-04· cited 19×
• Swain v. Wells
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-02-11· cited 13×
• Blalock v. Blalock
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-10-10· cited 12×
• Kiser v. Kiser
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1960-04-14· cited 12×
• Roberson v. Roberson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-02-09· cited 10×
• Breen v. Breen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-02-13· cited 7×
• Loftis v. Loftis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-05-31· cited 6×
• Bufford v. Bufford
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-12-05· cited 5×
• Pannell v. Pannell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-04-09· cited 5×
• Gorvin v. Stegmann
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-07-18· cited 5×
• Buxton v. Hooker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-07-11· cited 4×
• Hemphill v. Hemphill
  N.D. Georgia· 1975-08-01· cited 4×
• Lusk v. Lusk
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1976-06-01· cited 4×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1898-07-26· cited 26×
• Hardy v. Pennington
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-02-16· cited 21×