Caughron v. Caughron’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2012
21 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 Malcolm v. Malcolm · Guindon v. Guindon · Herndon v. Herndon · Hansen v. Hansen · Tesch v. Tesch
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a discretion exercised to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly against, reason and evidence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“property owned by each party, their relative incomes, the liquidity of the assets, and whether either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is clear "that a trial court's alimony award will not be disturbed `unless it clearly appears that the trial court abused its discretion.'" Abuse of discretion is a very high standard that cannot be easily overturned. Abuse of discretion is defined as "`a discretion exercised to an end or purpose not justified by, and clearly against, reason and evidence.'" [ Tesch v. Tesch, 399 N.W.2d 880, 884 (S.D.1987)], sets forth the frequently quoted factors the trial court should consider when setting an alimony award. They are[:] "the length of the marriage; the respective earning capacity of the parties; their respective financial condition after the property division; their respective age, health, and physical condition; their station in life or social standing; and, the relative fault in the termination of the marriage."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eichmann v. Eichmann
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.