Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill (1988), Leo v. Leo (1985)
175 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 Weiman v. Weiman · Gallo v. Gallo · Kaplan v. Kaplan · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Scherr v. Scherr
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no single criterion is preferred over the others, and the [decisionmaker] is accorded wide latitude in varying the weight placed upon each item under the peculiar circumstances of each case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he 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 · from the concurrence“A ritualistic rendition of each and every statutory element would serve no useful purpose.”
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.