Libby v. Libby’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2006
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mahoney v. Mahoney · Dargie v. Dargie · Doucette v. Washburn · Sweeney v. Sweeney · Hedrich v. Hedrich
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review the ... court’s disposition of marital property for an abuse of discretion and will overturn its decision only if there is a violation of some positive rule of law or if the division results in a plain and unmistakable injustice, so apparent that it is instantly visible without argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grenier v. Grenier
How this case has been treated — in progress
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