McPhee v. McPhee’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill (1988), Leo v. Leo (1985)
3 federal appellate · 120 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 · Gallo v. Gallo · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · McGuinness v. McGuinness · Valante v. Valante
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of entering a decree annulling or dissolving a marriage or for legal separation ..., the superior court may assign to either the husband or wife all or any part of the estate of the other; and may pass title to real property, without any act on the part of either the husband or the wife to the other party.... In fixing the nature and value of the property, if any, to be so assigned, the court ..., shall consider the length of the marriage, the causes for the annulment, dissolution of the marriage or legal separation, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, vocational skills, employability, estate, liabilities and needs of each of the parties and the opportunity of each for future acquisition of capital assets and income. The court shall also consider the contribution of each of the parties in the acquisition, preservation or appreciation in value of their respective estates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) At the time of entering a decree ... dissolving a marriage ..., the superior court may assign to either the husband or wife all or any part of the estate of the other. The court may pass title to real property to either party or to a third person or may order the sale of such real property, without any act by either the husband or the wife, when in the judgment of the court it is the proper mode to carry the decree into effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Kujan“the statute gives no priority to any single criterion in determining a property division.”
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.