Alston v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Schisler v. State (2006), Aventis Pasteur, Inc. v. Skevofilax (2007)
127 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 Cherry v. Cherry · Rothman v. Rothman · Murff v. Murff · Deering v. Deering · Harper v. Harper
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"§ 8-205. Same-Award. (a) Grant of award.—(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, after the court determines which property is marital property, and the value of the marital property, the court may transfer ownership of an interest in property described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, grant a monetary award, or both, as an adjustment of the equities and rights of the parties concerning marital property, whether or not alimony is awarded. (2) The court may transfer ownership of an interest in: (i) a pension, retirement, profit sharing, or deferred compensation plan, from one party to either or both parties; and (ii) subject to the consent of any lienholders, family use personnel property, from one or both parties to either or both parties. (b) Factors in determining amount and method of payment or terms of transfer.—The court shall determine the amount and the method of payment of a monetary award, or the terms of the transfer of the interest in property described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, or both, after considering each of the following factors: (1) The contributions, monetary and nonmonetary, of each party to the well-being of the family; (2) the value of all property interest of each party; (3) The economic circumstances of each party at the time the award is to be made; (4) The circumstances that contributed to the estrangement of the parties; (5) the duration of the marriage; (6) the age of each party; (7) the physical and mental ”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where one party, wholly through his or her own efforts, and without any direct or indirect contribution by the other, acquires a specific item of marital property after the parties have separated and after the marital family has, as a practical matter, ceased to exist, a monetary award representing an equal division of that particular property would not ordinarily be consonant with the history and purpose of the statute.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he decision whether to grant a monetary award is generally within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions 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.