19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Heacock v. Heacock (1988), Rubin v. Rubin (1987)
83 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 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Van Loan v. Van Loan · Cearley v. Cearley · Rice v. Rice · 81 Wis. 2d 620 - Leighton v. Leighton
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“empowered in their uncontrolled discretion to invade principal for the benefit of [the beneficiary's] mother”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An attempt at some determination of the usual speculative quantum of an expectancy might well involve the lengthy trial of issues collateral to the § 34 action: the validity of a will, current and future testamentary capacity, valuation of the estates of others, familial relationships, and so forth. See Krause v. Krause, 174 Conn. 361, 365 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanify v. Hanify“[t]he underpinning of any order for division of property under § 34 is ... consideration of the contributions, in the statutory terms, of each spouse, as well as other factors in existence at the dissolution of the partnership which have been traditionally applied in determining alimony.”
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.