Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Barber v. Barber (1980), Ragains v. Ragains (1979)
32 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 Carlson v. Carlson · Tavlin v. Tavlin · In Re the Marriage of Novak · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Seybold v. Seybold
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although alimony and allocation of property rights are distinguishable and have different purposes in marriage dissolution proceedings, they are still closely related in the matter of determining the amount to be allowed, and circumstances may require that they be considered together to determine whether the court has abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. Hansen
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.