Jensen v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2003
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Silver Dollar Club v. Cosgriff Neon Company · Johnson v. Johnson · Leftwich v. Leftwich · Clark County Sports Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Las Vegas · JOSEPH F. SANSON INVESTMENT CO. v. Cleland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“achieve a similar economic result, as a matter of law, by merely adjusting the amount of alimony Donald would have to pay Barbara; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“coercive equitable relief [in the form of ordering waiver of exemptions] is appropriate only when a legal remedy is inadequate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.