Moseley v. Mosier’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Turner v. Rogers (2011), Turner v. Rogers (2011)
84 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 Curlee v. Howle · Smith v. Smith · Bryant v. Varat · Kelly v. Edwards · Brooks v. Brooks
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parties' intent is rarely revealed from the agreement's words of art. Generally, those terms are used without intending or implying any particular legal consequences. Later, courts impose the consequences upon the unsuspecting parties. Today, we overrule those cases which hold that words of art make a major distinction in the operation of divorce law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Miles“[U]nless the agreement unambiguously denies the court jurisdiction, the terms will be modifiable by the court. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Miles
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.