Moroch v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the reduction of the principal amount of that part of a debt: (A) incurred during a marriage; (B) secured by a lien on property owned by a spouse; (C) for which the creditor agreed to look for repayment solely to the separate marital estate of the spouse on whose property the lien attached; and (D) incurred for the acquisition of, or for capital improvements to, property”). . Id. § 3.402(a)(8) (covering”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gerald Byron Barras v. Leslea Loring Barras

2. “In family law cases, the abuse of discretion standard of review overlaps with the traditional sufficiency standard of review; as a result, legal insufficiency is not an independent ground of reversible error, but instead constitutes a factor relevant to our assessment of whether the trial judge abused her discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re B.R.

3. “trac[e] the assets on hand during the marriage back to property that, because of its time and manner of acquisition, is separate in character.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 336 F. Supp. 3d 732 - United States v. Orr