Horner v. Horner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “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. The trial court is not required to make specific findings, but it must specify a rationale for its determination.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynnes v. Lynnes · Ulsaker v. White

2. “[w]hen a court grants a money judgment to achieve an equitable distribution, it should set the term for payment of the cash judgment for as short a period as possible without imposing a serious hardship on the party responsible to pay the judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ulsaker v. White

3. “[i]t is appropriate for a court to consider all of the parties' time together in dividing the marital property when parties live together and then marry.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lizakowski v. Lizakowski