Williams v. Massa’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Bongaards v. Millen (2003), Baccanti v. Morton (2001)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 Heacock v. Heacock · Rice v. Rice · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson · Drapek v. Drapek · 20 Mass. App. Ct. 811 - Grubert v. Grubert
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 62 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”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a judge's determination on the equitable division of marital property will not be disturbed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an equitable, rather than an equal, division of property.”
3 later decisions 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.