Unkle v. Unkle’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Petrini v. Petrini (1994), Queen v. Queen (1987)
114 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Deering v. Deering · Harper v. Harper · 58 Md. App. 308 - Holston v. Holston · Grant v. Zich
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““arose from purely fortuitous circumstances and not from any on-going marital initiative to acquire marital assets. The claim simply accrued to the injured spouse as a result of an accident and was his separate property.” 305 Md. at 596 , 505 A.2d 849 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““marital property does not include property: (i) acquired before the marriage; (ii) acquired by inheritance or gift from a third party; (iii) excluded by valid agreement; or (iv) directly traceable to any of these sources.” (Emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blake v. Blake · Niroo v. Niroo““[T]he statute indicates that nonmonetary contributions within a marriage should be recognized in the event that a marriage is dissolved; that a spouse whose activities do not include the production of income may nevertheless have contributed toward the acquisition of property by either or both spouses during the marriage; that when a marriage is dissolved the property interests of the spouses should be adjusted fairly and equitably, with careful consideration given to both monetary and nonmonetary contributions made by the respective spouses; and that the accomplishment of these objectives necessitates that there be a departure from the inequity inherent in Maryland’s old ‘title’ system of dealing with the marital property of divorcing spouses.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Niroo v. Niroo · Queen v. Queen
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.