Johns v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “all relevant factors including the length of the marriage, any prior marriage of a party, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, vocational skills, employability, estate, liabilities, needs, opportunity for future acquisition of capital assets, and income of each party. The court shall also consider the contribution of each in the acquisition, preservation, depreciation or appreciation in the amount or value of the marital property, as well as the contribution of a spouse as a homemaker.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marriage of Watson v. Watson · Marriage of Currey v. Currey

2. “Where the trial court's decision on valuation and division are supported by evidence in the record, they will not be disturbed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marriage of Crace v. Crace

3. “Trial courts are accorded broad discretion in the valuation and distribution of marital assets.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marriage of Crace v. Crace