Wilk v. Wilk’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Weale v. Lund (2006), State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. Parkway Cleaners (2019)
28 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 Cabot v. Cabot · In Re Handy · Carter v. Gugliuzzi · Russell v. Armitage · Solomon v. Atlantis Development, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be interpreted to give the trial court as many options as possible to achieve equity between the parties, including an expansive power to assign property to one of the co-tenants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Begin v. Benoit“`courts should consider all relevant circumstances to ensure that complete justice is done.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Begin v. Benoit“remedial statutes ought to be liberally construed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.