Moss v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
16 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 Reichard v. Reichard · 154 Ga. App. 235 - Wiley v. Tom Howell & Associates, Inc. · Brown v. Brown · Robinson v. Robinson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] divorce `decree should accurately reflect a settlement reached by the parties,' [cit.] `and a trial court is not authorized to adopt and incorporate into the final decree and judgment of divorce a purported memorialization of the settlement that contains more substantive terms than the settlement.' [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No contract exists until all essential terms have been agreed to, and the failure to agree to even one essential term means there is no agreement to be enforced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We cannot agree ... that the provision regarding the method of appraisal is merely facilitative and is not a substantive term of the agreement. [Cit.]”
2 later decisions 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.