Simms v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Crowley v. Crowley (1997), Muller v. Muller (1996)
40 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 Darak v. Darak · O'Neil v. Interstate Navigation Co. · Hardisty v. Hardisty · Grinold v. Grinold · 19 Conn. App. 146 - Albrecht v. Albrecht
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly in cases of fraud can a modification be based on an increase in the value of assets.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]ecrees in a dissolution action cannot be modified by acts of the parties without further decree or order 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.