Bladow v. Bladow’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Kostelecky v. Kostelecky (2006), Hitz v. Hitz (2008)
30 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 Fischer v. Fischer · Ruff v. Ruff · Van Oosting v. Van Oosting · Grinaker v. Grinaker · Weigel v. Weigel
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the respective ages of the parties, their earning ability, the duration of the marriage and conduct of the parties during the marriage, their station in life, the circumstances and necessities of each, their health and physical condition, their financial circumstances as shown by the property owned at the time, its value at the time, its income-producing capacity, if any, whether accumulated before or after the marriage, and such other matters as may be material.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wagner v. Wagner · Berg v. Berg“Under North Dakota law, it is well-established that a property distribution does not need to be equal to be equitable, but a substantial disparity must be explained so as to provide some indication of the rationale of the [district] court in distributing the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grasser v. Grasser“[T]he length of the marriage is relevant to the distribution of gifts and inherited property as part of the 'equitable' division of the marital estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grasser v. Grasser
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.