Moriarty v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Bagley v. Monticello Insurance (1999), Hastings Associates, Inc. v. Local 369 Building Fund, Inc. (1997)
39 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 Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES · Heacock v. Heacock · Rice v. Rice · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · Symmons v. O'Keeffe
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parties' respective contributions to the marital partnership remain the touchstone of an equitable division of the marital estate”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the marital estate is typically determined as of the date of the divorce trial, the judge has the discretion to make that determination at another date,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the pension, retirement and other benefits accrued prior to the marriage”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connor v. Benedict
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.