Scherr v. Scherr’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lopinto v. Haines (1981), Yontef v. Yontef (1981)
195 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Koizim v. Koizim · Jacobsen v. Jacobsen · Posada v. Posada · Fucci v. Fucci
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would serve no useful function to require the trial court ritualistically to rehearse the statutory criteria that it has taken into account,”
117 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plaintiff urges that meaningful appellate review of the trial court's exercise of its discretion is made impossible by too brief a statement of its reasoning by a trial court. Undoubtedly this becomes true at some point. We hold, however, that in the circumstances of this case, given the transcript and other parts of the record available to us, the memorandum meets the minimum requirements of reviewability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without any award of alimony [to the plaintiff appellant], with a relatively modest award of child support, and with an award to the defendant of one-half of the equity in the marital home.”
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.