Eversman v. Eversman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2004
12 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 Gallo v. Gallo · Yontef v. Yontef · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Wolk v. Wolk
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the defendant maintains hope for reconciliation will not support a finding that there are prospects for a reconciliation . . . citations omitted . . . . A difference, to be irreconcilable, need not necessarily be so viewed by both parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not defined in our statutes. In upholding the constitutionality of General Statutes (Rev. to 1977) 46-32 (now 46b-40 ), insofar as it authorizes a dissolution of marriage upon a finding of irretrievable breakdown, our Supreme Court, in Joy v. Joy, 178 Conn. 254 , 423 A.2d 895 (1979), made the following relevant observation:”
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.