Larson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 state decisions

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Though petitioner’s homemaking services and non-monetary contributions may not have been rendered in the ranch context, they nevertheless continued as petitioner had custody and primary responsibility for the physical and emotional needs of the parties’ minor children. This no doubt facilitated respondent’s ability to maintain his employment and ranch responsibilities as he was not required to take time from these activities to ensure that the childrens’ [sic] basic needs were being met.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re the Marriage of Glass · Marriage of Harper v. Harper

2. ““Item-by-item findings are not required in property division cases, but findings nevertheless must be sufficiently adequate to ensure that this Court need not succumb to speculation while assessing the conscientiousness or reasonableness of the District Court’s judgment.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deist v. Wachholz · In Re the Marriage of Ziegler

3. “[t]his Court cannot uphold the District Court's judgment as within the realm of its broad discretion if we have no inkling of its thought processes.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deist v. Wachholz · In Re the Marriage of Howard