Baltzer v. Baltzer’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2002
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 · Hanks v. Hanks · Wallahan v. Wallahan · Temple v. Temple
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 trial court has broad discretion with respect to property division and we will not set aside its judgment unless a clear abuse of discretion is shown.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“alimony [should] not be denied merely because [spouses] may be able to obtain employment and support [themselves];”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.