Carlson v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably In Re Marriage of Graham (1978), 35 Colo. App. 411 - In Re Marriage of Lodholm (1975)
119 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 Los Angeles Brush Mfg Corporation v. James · 39 So. 2d 554 - Yandell v. Yandell · Cummings v. Lockwood · Brock v. Brock · Nunemacher v. Nunemacher
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n the absence of special circumstances which require or make a lump-sum award of alimony proper, or a compelling reason that necessitates the desirability for such an award, a lump-sum or gross award of alimony should not be made."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The granting of alimony in gross, or lump-sum alimony, as it is sometimes called, provides a definite and final judgment which the court cannot later modify. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“occupational experience, coupled with education, training, and business background should be considered in determining what division should be made of property,”
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.