Redding v. Redding’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Williams v. Massa (2000), Mahoney v. Mahoney (1997)
2 federal appellate · 59 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Rice v. Rice · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · Neger v. Neger · Bianco v. Bianco · Ross v. Ross
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a judge has made findings consistent with his obligations under G.L.c. 208, § 34 ( Rice v. Rice, 372 Mass. 398, 402-403 [1977]), indicating that he has fairly considered all factors relevant under § 34 and has not considered any irrelevant matter, his determinations as to alimony and property division may not be reversed unless `plainly wrong and excessive'”
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.