Hansen v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2007
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Hiber v. City of St. Paul · Wallahan v. Wallahan · Bush v. Remington Rand, Inc. · Vandegrift v. Riley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, something is a contingent liability when it depends upon some future event, which may or may not happen, thereby making it uncertain whether it will ever become a liability. Similarly, the word “speculative” has been found to have varying meanings. It is “(s)ome-times ... used as ... a conclusion reached by the faculty or process of intellectual examination, search, and reasoning; sometimes as meaning conjecture, guesswork, and surmise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Larson“'Contingent liabilities that may never be paid or that may be paid only in part need not be deducted in determining net worth. Speculative contingent liabilities should not be considered in apportioning the parties' assets for purposes of a property division.'”
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.