Kovarik v. Kovarik’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Albrecht v. Albrecht (2002), In Re the Estate of McDermott (2002)
50 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 Barrett v. Asarco Inc. · Keebler v. Harding · In Re Marriage of Stufft · Marriage of Pfeifer v. Pfeifer · In Re the Marriage of Wessel
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding is clearly erroneous only if it is not supported by substantial evidence, the trial court misapprehended the effect of the evidence, or our review of the record convinces us that a mistake has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence that a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion; it consists of more than a mere scintilla of evidence but may be somewhat less than a preponderance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.