Wineinger v. Wineinger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Court believes that failure to award spousal maintenance under the circumstances of this case would be inequitable since it would be holding that the Petitioner-Husband may continue to accumulate toward his retirement and live on his present income, but the Respondent-Wife must use her retirement nest egg to live on supplemented by whatever modest income she may be able to generate. After a marriage of this duration such a holding would be clearly inequitable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Thomas · In re Cotter

2. “unable to support himself or herself through appropriate employment or [had] custod[y] of a child whose age or condition [was] such that the custodian should not be required to seek employment outside the home or lack[ed] earning ability ... adequate to support himself or herself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Cotter

3. “dissipat[e] it to an extent that when she no longer had any earning capacity , there would be nothing left upon which she could draw.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Cotter