Debowsky v. Debowsky’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill (1988), 25 Conn. App. 41 - Graham v. Graham (1991)
36 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 Weiman v. Weiman · Thomas v. Thomas · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Tutalo v. Tutalo · Carter v. Sarault
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fundamental principle in dissolution actions is that a trial court may exercise broad discretion in awarding alimony and dividing property so long as it considers all relevant statutory criteria. . .”
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.