Ulsaker v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2023
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 Fischer v. Fischer · Ruff v. Ruff · Grinaker v. Grinaker · Kostelecky v. Kostelecky · Hitz v. Hitz
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berg v. Berg · Dronen v. Dronen“[T]he trial court must balance one [party’s] needs against the other [party’s] ability to pay. [Weigel v. Weigel, 2000 ND 16, ¶ 16 , 604 N.W.2d 462 .] The court should consider the property owned by each party, their relative incomes, whether property is liquid or fixed assets, and whether the action of either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case. Myers v. Myers, 1999 ND 194, ¶ 13 , 601 N.W.2d 264 . An award of attorney fees requires specific findings supported by evidence of the parties’ financial conditions and needs. Whitmire v. Whitmire, 1999 ND 56, ¶ 14 , 591 N.W.2d 126 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heinle v. Heinle“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous only if it is induced by an erroneous view of the law, if there is no evidence to support a finding, or if, although there is some evidence to support it, on the entire evidence, we are left with a firm conviction a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berg v. Berg
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.