Heacock v. Heacock’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 42 district · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Jarosz v. Palmer (2002), Kobrin v. Board of Registration in Medicine (2005)
9 federal appellate · 42 district · 137 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 Cousineau v. Laramee · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · Mackintosh v. Chambers · Foster v. Evans · Franklin v. North Weymouth Cooperative Bank
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The purpose of a tort action is to redress a legal wrong in damages; that of a divorece action is to sever the marital relationship between the parties, and where appropriate, to fix the parties' respective rights and obligations with regard to alimony and support, and to divide the marital estate."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Issue preclusion' ... prevents relitigation of an issue determined in an earlier action where the same issue arises in a later action, based on a different claim, between the same parties or their privies.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]laim preclusion makes a valid, final judgment conclusive on the parties and their privies, and prevents - 21 - relitigation of all matters that were or could have been adjudicated in the action.”
3 later decisions 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.