Blige v. Blige’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We find nothing in the parties' standard of living before the marriage which would have put [w]ife on notice that [h]usband failed to disclose material facts so as to render the nondisclosure immaterial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brantley v. Brantley. · Lynch v. Lynch.

2. “[t]he enforceability of antenuptial agreements is, of course, a matter of public policy”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brantley v. Brantley. · Lynch v. Lynch.

3. “reading of Mallen turns Scherer’s disclosure requirement on its head. . . . [W]e have repeatedly recognized that Scherer imposes an affirmative duty of full and fair disclosure of all material facts on parties entering into an antenuptial agreement. [Cits.] ... In short, the “duty of inquiry” envisioned by [Husband] is incompatible with the duty of full and fair disclosure recognized by Scherer and its progeny. Finally, in Mallen , we did not rest our decision upholding the trial court’s enforcement of the antenuptial agreement on [the wife’s] failure to inquire into [the husband’s] financial status prior to execution of the ante-nuptial agreement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Quarles v. Quarles