Irwin v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Varbel v. Varbel (2014), Manhart v. Manhart (1986)
33 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 Tobin v. Tobin · McMillan v. Lane Wood & Company · Tahona Smokeless Coal Co. v. State Industrial Commission · Offutt v. Wagoner · Shrout v. Shrout
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“efforts played a part in the accumulation of the parties' equity in the home and more specifically, that had it not been for her earnings as a teacher, the parties would not have been able to meet their household and essential living expenses, especially during the periods of defendant's (husband's) unemployment. 16”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CHILDERS v. CHILDERS““In Shrout v. Shrout, 224 Or. 521 , 356 P.2d 935 , * * * the court said, * * *, that any moral transgression of the mother, along with other relevant factors, must be considered in determining what is best for the children in the matter of their custody. We agree with that statement, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Paul
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.