Beal v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2022
18 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 State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Carlson · Patrick v. Sedwick · Richmond v. Richmond · Wolff v. Arctic Bowl, Inc. · ALASKA DIVERSIFIED CONTR. v. School Dist.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'there exist exceptional circumstances presenting a clear error constituting a manifest injustice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether to award credit for post-separation mortgage payments is within the discretion of the superior court in carrying out its task of creating an equitable distribution of property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maxwell v. Sosnowski“generally prohibits the reconsideration of issues which have been adjudicated in a previous appeal in the same case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ebert v. Bruce L.
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.