108 Conn. App. 813 - Watrous v. Watrous’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 113 Conn. App. 122 - Pellow v. Pellow (2009), 114 Conn. App. 414 - Malave v. Ortiz (2009)
42 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
Relies on State v. Golding · Ungar v. Sarafite · Cologne v. Westfarms Associates · Koizim v. Koizim · Chase Manhattan Bank v. AECO Elevator Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n appellate court will not disturb a trial court's orders in domestic relations cases unless the court has abused its discretion or it is found that it could not reasonably conclude as it did, based on the facts presented”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“financial orders are entirely interwoven. The rendering of judgment in a complicated dissolution case is a carefully crafted mosaic, each element of which may be dependent on the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.