Borkowski v. Borkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
271 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant Co. (1995), Zamstein v. Marvasti (1997)
271 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 Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Markey v. Santangelo · Rubin v. Rubin · Darak v. Darak · Hardisty v. Hardisty
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a trial court determines that there has been a substantial change in the financial circumstances of one of the parties, the same criteria that determine an initial award of alimony ... are relevant to the question of modification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to the court's ability to fashion relief in the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.