Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marriage of Schmitz v. Schmitz · Marriage of DeLa Rosa v. DeLa Rosa · Marriage of Servin v. Servin · Marriage of Kottke v. Kottke · Asch v. Housing and Redevelopment Authority
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“working spouse’s financial contributions to joint living expenses and educational costs of student spouse less ½ (working spouse’s financial contributions plus student spouse’s financial contributions less cost of education) equals equitable award to working spouse.”
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.