Fries v. Fries’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2016
20 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 Fischer v. Fischer · Ruff v. Ruff · In Re Estate of Elmer · Nastrom v. Nastrom · Larson v. Larson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These guidelines provide that in determining the division of property under Section 14-05-24, N.D.C.C., the trial court may consider the respective ages of the parties to the marriage; their earning abilities; the duration of [the marriage] and the conduct of each during the marriage; their station in life; the circumstances and necessities of each; their health and physical condition; their financial circumstances as shown by the property owned at the time; its value and its income-producing capacity, if any, and whether it was accumulated or acquired before or after the marriage; and such other matters as may be material.” 284 N.W.2d at 581 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no method by which a trial judge can place a monetary value on [an inchoate personal injury] claim without engaging in conjecture and speculation. We do not know whether or not such claim may ever result in any monetary compensation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyce v. Boyce
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.