Klein v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Cabot v. Cabot (1997), Kanaan v. Kanaan (1995)
97 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 Brown v. Allen · 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 139 Wis. 2d 23 - In Re Marriage of LaRocque · Dugan v. Dugan · 58 Md. App. 308 - Holston v. Holston
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to maintain the wife’s standard of living as nearly as possible at the same level she enjoyed during the marriage. The husband, having entered one of the strongest and most fundamental relationships known to the law, must continue to bear its financial burden where he can reasonably do so and where it is necessary in order to prevent a relatively greater hardship to the wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Russell“[o]ne of the purposes of maintenance under the act is recompense for the contributions of a homemaker to the family's well-being which was not otherwise made (presumably in property division),”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur“for 18 years [the wife] dedicated her life to raising the children ... and supporting [her husband] in development of his law practice”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Molleur v. Molleur
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.