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Drapek v. Drapek’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
8
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Bender v. Bender (2001), Simmons v. Simmons (1998)

3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions

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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 In Re Marriage of Graham · Mahoney v. Mahoney · O'Brien v. O'Brien · Rice v. Rice · Schuler v. Schuler

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

  1. “[u]nlike alimony, a property settlement is not subject to modification.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wolff v. Wolff · Hanify v. Hanify
  2. ““the length of the marriage, the conduct of the parties during the marriage, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, vocational skills, employability, estate, liabilities and needs of each of the parties and the opportunity of each for future acquisition of capital assets and income. . . . The court may also consider the contribution of each of the parties in the acquisition, preservation or appreciation in value of their respective estates.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pfannenstiehl v. Pfannenstiehl · Pare v. Pare
  3. “the present value of future earned income is not subject to equitable assignment under G.L.c. 208, § 34.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hanify v. Hanify

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.