Ahneman v. Ahneman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Russell v. Russell (2005), Drumm v. Brown (1998)
99 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 Kahn v. Grant · State v. Curcio · Metropolitan District v. Housing Authority · Martin-Trigona v. Lavien · Yontef v. Yontef
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a rule essential to the efficient administration of justice, that where a court is vested with jurisdiction over the [subject matter] upon which it assumes to act, and regularly obtains jurisdiction of the person, it becomes its right and duty to determine every question which may arise in the cause, without interference from any other tribunal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCoy“trial court's decision not to consider the defendant's [postdissolution] motions was the functional equivalent of a denial of those motions. Like a formal denial, the effect of the court's decision refusing to consider the defendant's motions ... was to foreclose the possibility of relief from the court on those issues ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“marital dissolution cases because of the likelihood of continuing changes in the parties' circumstances requiring continuing dispute resolution by the court.”
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.