Carlson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2018
17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · Schneider v. Schneider · Swogger v. Taylor · 81 Wash. 2d 72 - In Re Estate of Thornton · Figoni v. Figoni
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the statutory procedure must be followed, once the court has taken jurisdiction of the case it may exercise its general equitable powers to effect the most advantageous plan which the particular nature of the case admits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Meretricious' spouse describes a relationship where the parties knew they were cohabitating without marriage. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinnison v. Kinnison“Property Rights of De Facto Spouses Including Thoughts on the Value of Homemakers' Services,”
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.