Stuczynski v. Stuczynski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Tracey v. Tracey (1992), Reichert v. Reichert (1994)
47 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 Buche v. Buche · Murrell v. Murrell · Ritz v. Ritz · Von Tersch v. Von Tersch · In Re Marriage of Heinemann
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When dissolution of a marriage is decreed, the court may order payment of such alimony by one party to the other and division of property as may be reasonable, having regard for the circumstances of the parties, duration of the marriage, a history of the contributions to the marriage by each party, including contributions to the care and education of the children, and interruption of personal careers or educational opportunities .... . . . The purpose of a property division is to distribute the marital assets equitably between the parties. The purpose of alimony is to provide for the continued maintenance or support of one party by the other when the relative economic circumstances and the other criteria enumerated in this section make it appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“How is overtime to be treated in the calculation of income for the purposes of child support calculations? We believe it is appropriate to consider overtime wages in setting child support and alimony payments if the overtime is a regular part of the employment and the employee can actually expect to earn regularly a certain amount of income for working overtime. See, Lenz v. Wergin, 408 N.W.2d 873 (Minn. App. 1987); Strauch v. Strauch, 401 N.W.2d 444 (Minn. App. 1987); In re Marriage of Heinemann, 309 N.W.2d 151 (Iowa App. 1981). A court’s findings regarding the employee’s level of income should not be based on the inclusion of income that is entirely speculative in nature and over which the employee has little or no control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] party obligated to furnish child support is not required to undertake two separate employments when the party has one full-time job. A spouse with a full-time job, which job also furnishes substantial overtime, may not be required to work at a second job to furnish child support. If the earnings in such a second job are included in the calculation of the amount of child support due from the worker, the next result is a court requirement that the worker continue indefinitely at these two jobs to satisfy the court order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dueling v. Dueling
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.