Sands v. Sands’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Berry v. Loiseau (1992), Borkowski v. Borkowski (1994)
96 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 State v. Evans · Yontef v. Yontef · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · State v. Nardini · McGuinness v. McGuinness
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court hearing a divorce is not free to enter the relief sought just because all the parties agree that the relief is desirable.”
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.