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← 2009 VT 84 - Meyncke v. Meyncke

Meyncke v. Meyncke’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

30 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1673

Relies on Cabot v. Cabot · Stickney v. Stickney · Smith v. Desautels · Chase v. Bowen · Cliche v. Cliche

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

  1. “there is a limit to the extent that changes in financial circumstances can support downward modification of a compensatory maintenance award”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “there is a limit to the extent that a reduction in the recipient spouse's expenses can justify downward modification”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[m]aintenance recipients should normally retain the benefit of actions they take to live more economically”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.