Gordon v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 147 Md. App. 350 - Turner v. Turner (2002), Konzelman v. Konzelman (1999)
44 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 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. · 506 So. 2d 1039 - In re Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 6C(1) · Dickey v. Dickey · Collier v. MD-Individual Practice Ass'n
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'cohabitation' implies more than merely a common residence or a sexual relationship[,]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[S]eparation agreements . . . are generally favored by the courts as a peaceful means of terminating marital strife and discord so long as they are not against public policy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“formula contained in the Maryland Child Support Guidelines where the evidence demonstrated that Jonathan had not actually kept the children more than 35% of the overnights as required by the Guidelines? For the reasons that follow, we shall reverse the circuit court on its child support determination, but otherwise affirm. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The parties were divorced by a judgment entered on December 14, 2011. That judgment incorporated, but did not merge, the parties' Separation and Property Settlement Agreement (”
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.