Lowe v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2024
9 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 Sanford v. Sanford · Fox v. Fox · Saxvik v. Saxvik · Fausch v. Fausch · Jameson v. Jameson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A circuit court’s decision regarding whether to modify an alimony award is reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard. “An abuse of discretion is a discretion exercised to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly against, reason and evidence.” We review the circuit court’s findings of fact under the clearly erroneous standard and conclusions of law de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Moore
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.