Boan v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2007
10 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 Orr v. Orr · Kahn v. Shevin · Stokes v. Stokes · McLaurin v. Wilson · Gaffney v. Peeler
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for need; (2) the claim that discrimination in favor of women was intended to compensate for past social disadvantages. The Court found that gender should not be a proxy for need, the latter being a matter which a divorce court could determine and resolve through specific awards. Finding non-discriminatory solution [sic] to the problem of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e are not told how the Orr rationale requires the result here reached.”
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.