Sims v. Sims

How courts have described this case

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

• \The strongest governmental purpose for Georgia's alimony laws is the provision of support for a needy spouse .\ (emphasis supplied)
• “The strongest governmental purpose for Georgia’s alimony laws is the provision of support for a needy spouse.” (emphasis supplied)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-18· cited 70×
• Litwack v. Litwack
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-07· cited 49×
• Haddow v. Haddow
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-09-30· cited 27×
• Hathcock v. Hathcock
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-09· cited 17×
• Daniel v. Daniel
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-19· cited 17×
• Van Dyck v. Van Dyck
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-08· cited 16×
• Allen v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 6×
• Sedehi v. Chamberlin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-09· cited 5×
• Hurley v. Hurley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 2×
• Reiter v. Reiter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-17· cited 2×
• Temples v. Temples
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-05· cited 2×
• Pattberg v. Pattberg
  New York Supreme Court· 1985-12-04· cited 1×
• Gordin v. Gordin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-05-04
• Arya John Sedehi v. Amanda Chamberlin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kitfield v. Kitfield
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-06-08· cited 17×
• Sims v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-08· cited 10×
• Berkowitz v. Berkowitz
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-05-12· cited 9×
• Morris v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-09-06· cited 8×
• Hilsman v. Hilsman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-08· cited 5×
• Pape v. Pape
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-22· cited 2×