Orr v. Orr

How courts have described this case

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

• extending alimony obligations to women after a male plaintiff successfully challenged Alabama's discriminatory alimony statute in this Court
• construing alimony statutes neutrally to extend benefits to husbands as well as wives
• construing alimony statutes neutrally to extend benefits to husbands as well as wives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kopp v. Fair Political Practices Commission
  California Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 155×
• Milán Rodríguez v. Muñoz Gil de Lamadrid
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1981-01-15· cited 92×
• Lovell v. Lovell
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-12-13· cited 60×
• Dees v. Dees
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1980-11-19· cited 45×
• Shewbart v. Shewbart
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2010-12-10· cited 43×
• Lowe v. Fulford
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-10-07· cited 33×
• Ross v. Ross
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1982-04-28· cited 33×
• Peters v. Narick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-10-02· cited 33×
• In Re White
  N.D. Alabama· 1999-12-01· cited 31×
• Brothers v. Vickers
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1981-11-04· cited 25×
• Murphey v. Murphey
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1982-10-21· cited 25×
• K.M. v. G.H.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1995-08-25· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-05-13· cited 22×
• Thompson v. Thompson
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1979-11-21· cited 19×
• Hughes v. Hughes (In Re Hughes)
  N.D. Alabama· 1981-12-15· cited 18×
• McCarron v. McCarron
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2014-11-21· cited 17×
• Ray v. Ray
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1980-01-16· cited 15×
• Hall v. McBride
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1982-06-30· cited 14×
• Madden v. Madden
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1981-05-20· cited 13×
• Kahn v. Kahn
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1996-11-01· cited 13×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-19· cited 928×
• Welsh v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 785×
• Orr v. Orr
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 714×
• Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 703×
• Califano v. Goldfarb
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-02· cited 384×
• White v. Crook
  M.D. Alabama· 1966-02-07· cited 100×
• Eich v. Town of Gulf Shores
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1974-09-12· cited 75×
• Sterling Oil of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Pack
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1973-11-15· cited 63×
• State ex rel. Knox v. Dillard
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1916-04-21· cited 42×
• Bryant v. Moss
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1976-03-19· cited 32×
• Beal v. Beal
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-06-23· cited 29×
• Orr v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-11-10· cited 18×
• Orr v. Orr
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1977-03-16· cited 15×