Burns v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Bornemann v. Bornemann (1998), Casey v. Casey (2004)
52 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 Weiman v. Weiman · Vose v. Cross · 13 Conn. App. 300 - O'Neill v. O'Neill · Leo v. Leo · State v. Dufault
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For example, in Vandal v. Vandal, supra 31 Conn. App. 564 -65, this court upheld a twenty-year alimony schedule that would continue even if the recipient remarried, on the basis that the payor was not immediately able to pay a sufficient amount and the full term of payments was required to pay the recipient that to which she was entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court must consider the value of the assets, but need not assign them specific values”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Citations omitted; emphasis in original.) Siracusa v. Siracusa, supra, 30 Conn. App. 566 -67.”
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.