Chilkott v. Chilkott’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bornemann v. Bornemann (1998), Estate of Fleming v. Nicholson (1998)
24 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 Rubin v. Rubin · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · Victor v. Victor · Lauricella v. Lauricella · Osborn v. Osborn
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contingent on the worker reaching retirement, . . . [o]nce we accept the pension contingency, the contingencies in the instant case do not defeat the applicability of § 751(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“review of opinions from other states on this question reveals there is no unanimity as to whether trial courts should consider or divide future interests in trusts in making a property division * * * [b]ecause characteristics of trusts differ so greatly, case law turns 'on the attributes of the respective disputed interests' and construction of the enabling statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guagenti v. Guagenti
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.