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Thompson v. Thompson

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
226 U.S. 551
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
5 of 5
Citing cases (total)
5
Treatment dates
1957
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Thompson v. Thompson was overruled in part: all five flagged citations have been read, with the confirmed treatment listed below. The Constitution Annotated lists Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt as overruling Thompson.
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Vanderbilt's own words displaced Thompson only insofar as it held that an ex parte divorce extinguished the absent wife's alimony rights. The other citing opinions did not independently overturn Thompson.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

5 later cases cite Thompson v. Thompson; 5 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court held that Thompson no longer controlled insofar as an ex parte divorce was said to destroy the absent wife's alimony rights.

    Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Petitioner claims that this case is governed by Thompson v. Thompson, 226 U. S. 551. For the reasons given in a concurring opinion in Armstrong v. Armstrong, 350 U. S. 568, 575, at 580-581, the Thompson case, insofar as it held that an ex parte divorce destroyed alimony rights, can no longer be considered controlling.
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