Hoffman v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2024
17 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 Carlton v. Carlton · Metz v. Metz · Raymond v. Raymond · Holland v. Holland · Odegard v. Odegard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We afford the [district] court considerable discretion to form a distributive scheme appropriate to the peculiar circumstances of each individual case, and we will not disturb such a scheme absent a showing that the [district] court clearly abused its discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Iln granting a divorce, the court shall make such disposition of the property of the parties as appears just and equitable, having regard for the respective merits of the parties and the condition in which they will be left by the divorcee, the party through whom the property was acquired and the burdens imposed upon the property for the benefit of either party and children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is the trial court that decides the equitable distribution of property. The trial court hears all the evidence, judges the credibility of the witnesses on all issues, and makes its determination regarding property distribution of all marital property after considering the statutory factors. Wife’s isolated comment is but one piece of the puzzle and is not definitive for any purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madigan v. Maas
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.