Sack v. Sack’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Kostelecky v. Kostelecky (2006), Krueger v. Krueger (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 Reed v. Reed · Olander Contracting Co. v. Gail Wachter Investments · Williams v. Williams · Seablom v. Seablom · Nastrom v. Nastrom
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.
“Before 1976, North Dakota cases reflected unqualified acceptance of statutory alimony as the common-law concept of continuation after divorce of the husband’s duty to support and maintain his wife during marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Becker v. Becker
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.