Simms v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Maturo v. Maturo (2010), Misthopoulos v. Misthopoulos (2010)
44 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 Borkowski v. Borkowski · Simmons v. Simmons · Schmidt v. Schmidt · State v. Campbell · Bartlett v. Bartlett
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court has discretion to determine the weight to give to each of the criteria in light of the specific facts and circumstances of the case before it.”
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.