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← 162 Vt. 338 - Shaw v. Shaw

Shaw v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Scoville v. Scoville · Noddin v. Noddin · Cleverly v. Cleverly · Jacobs v. Jacobs · Lambertz v. Lambertz

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

  1. “[w]rongdoing that results in diminished income may fall within the category of voluntary termination of employment and bar modification of maintenance on grounds of changed circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the testimony d[id] not suggest that the amount of maintenance determined through negotiation was affected in any way by the possibility of a later job loss.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]here was no evidence that, at the time of the divorce, either party had any reason to believe husband would lose his job because of his prior actions”
    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.