Svetenko v. Svetenko’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2015
15 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 · Schantz v. Schantz · Nastrom v. Nastrom · Williams v. Williams
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that the trend in modern domestic-relations law is to treat alimony as a method for rehabilitating the party disadvantaged by the divorce. This seems to' be the basis of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, adopted in at least four States, not including North Dakota.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gooselaw v. Gooselaw
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.