Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2017
8 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. Carter · State ex rel. A.R. & C.P. v. C.R. · Colman v. Colman · Burt v. Burt · Hall v. Hall
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We afford the trial court 'considerable latitude in adjusting financial and property interests, and its actions are entitled to a presumption of validity' - Accordingly, changes will be made in a trial court's property division determination in a divoree action 'only if there was a misunderstanding or misapplication of the law resulting in substantial and prejudicial error, the evidence clearly preponderated against the findings, or such a serious inequity has resulted as to manifest a clear abuse of discretion. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Wlhere one party has dissipated an asset, hidden its value or otherwise acted obstructively, the trial court may, in the exercise of its equitable powers, value a marital asset at some time other than the time the decree is entered, such as at separation," "or may otherwise hold one party accountable to the other for the dissipation of marital assets."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rayner v. Rayner“or may otherwise hold one party accountable to the other for the dissipation of marital assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rayner v. Rayner
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.