Jonusas v. Jonusas’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 effect of this dismissal is to recognize the jurisdiction of the trial court to enter a new judgment covering the entire case.’ ” Because the trial court has not been divested of jurisdiction, that court retains control over every phase of the case so that it may correct errors, or, in its discretion, modify or set aside orders or judgments until its jurisdiction is extinguished by the judgment becom ing final and appealable. “Either or both of the parties will then have the right to appeal the circuit court’s new decree of dissolution.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pollard v. Pollard · Rogers v. Rogers

2. “The effect of the dismissals is to recognize the jurisdiction of the trial court to enter a new judgment covering the entire case. Because either party will then have the right to appeal the trial court’s new judgment, the trial court may wish to consider additional evidence. It may choose to do so because of the “inseparable connection between the allocation of marital debt and the fair and equitable division of marital property.” Another reason to consider such additional evidence flows from the connection between the marital property division and determining Wife’s needs in order to calculate any maintenance award.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Marriage of Rhoads

3. ““Section 452.330.1 requires a trial court to divide the parties’ marital debts as well as their marital property.” In dividing the marital property and debts, “the trial court must make specific findings as to whether each asset before the court is marital property subject to division, is non-marital property to be set aside, or is property over which the dissolution court has no control.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rogers v. Rogers