Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2025
1 district · 19 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 Wald v. Wald · Young v. Young · Van Klootwyk v. Van Klootwyk · Gronland v. Gronland · Behm v. Behm
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no set formula for dividing a marital estate, but the trial court must equitably divide the property based upon the circumstances of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horner v. Horner
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.