Volk v. Volk’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2011
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 Fischer v. Fischer · Ruff v. Ruff · Nastrom v. Nastrom · Routledge v. Routledge · Weir v. Weir
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.
““(a) the respective ages of the parties; “(b) the parties’ earning abilities; “(c) the duration of the marriage and conduct of each of the parties during the marriage; “(d) the parties’ station in life; “(e) the circumstances and necessities of each of the parties; “(f) the parties’ health and physical condition; “(g) the parties’ financial circumstances as shown by the property owned at the time of the marital dissolution, its value, its income-producing capacity (if any), and whether it was accumulated before or after the marriage; and, “(h) other material matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lucy v. Lucy
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.