Whitney v. Whitney

How courts have described this case

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

• court gave preeminent consideration to “immediate and existing needs of the petitioner and the children”
• assessment of one third of monthly salary held not unreasonable for support

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Santagate v. Tower
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-08-25· cited 123×
• Davidson v. Davidson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-02-20· cited 90×
• Schuler v. Schuler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-27· cited 90×
• Redding v. Redding
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-07-17· cited 82×
• Felton v. Felton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-03-31· cited 75×
• Hayden v. Hayden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-12-15· cited 65×
• Cohen v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-12· cited 61×
• Surabian v. Surabian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-07-18· cited 58×
• Chin v. Merriot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-30· cited 57×
• Rolde v. Rolde
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-08-28· cited 42×
• Robbins v. Robbins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-11-29· cited 38×
• Heistand v. Heistand
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-07-02· cited 37×
• Pemberton v. Pemberton
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-01-03· cited 37×
• Department of Revenue v. Mason M.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-07-01· cited 30×
• Anderson v. Anderson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-04-12· cited 24×
• Binder v. Binder
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-06-15· cited 21×
• Buchanan v. Buchanan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-12-04· cited 21×
• Hinds v. Hinds
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1952-07-03· cited 21×
• McIntyre v. United States
  D. Massachusetts· 2006-09-05· cited 21×
• Whelan v. Whelan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-07-06· cited 21×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hersey v. Hersey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-06-04· cited 96×
• Coe v. Coe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-02-23· cited 75×
• Graves v. Graves
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 61×
• Perkins v. Perkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1917-01-03· cited 59×
• Gordon v. O'Brien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-02-01· cited 51×
• Topor v. Topor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-09-12· cited 46×
• Heard v. Heard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-11-03· cited 40×
• Gediman v. Cameron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-05-28· cited 33×
• Gordon v. Guernsey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-04-29· cited 31×
• Williamson v. Williamson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-09-14· cited 27×
• Baird v. Baird
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-04-01· cited 22×
• Rubinstein v. Rubinstein
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-05-15· cited 20×
• Coe v. Coe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-10-30· cited 16×
• Klar v. Klar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-11-28· cited 15×
• Coughlin v. Coughlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-12-01· cited 14×
• Comstock v. Dewey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-01-05· cited 14×
• Smith v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1906-03-02· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Whiston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-05-27· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Pouliot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-10-29· cited 11×
• Ziegler v. McKinlay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-12-03· cited 10×