Clement v. Clement’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2018
22 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 Hansen v. Hansen · Hanson v. Hanson · Kuehn v. Kuehn · Stenberg v. Stenberg · Rock v. Rock
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the duration of the marriage; (2) the value of the property owned by the parties; (3) the ages of the parties; (4) the health of the parties; (5) the competency of the parties to earn a living; (6) the contribution of each party to the accumulation of the property; and (7) the income-producing capacity of the parties’ assets.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the trial judge should consider the fact that the defendant inherited certain property, he is not bound to set it aside for the defendant and may consider it as part of the property to be divided. The statute is specific that title does not control the distribution of the property in a divorce action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the title to such property is in the name of the husband or the wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billion v. Billion
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.