Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2019
18 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 · Saint-Pierre v. Saint-Pierre · Hautala v. Hautala · Senger v. Senger · Baltzer v. Baltzer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making an award of alimony, the trial court has to consider and apply several factors: the length of the marriage; the earning capacity of the parties; the financial condition after the property division; the age, health and physical condition of the parties; the parties’ station in life or social standing; and fault. Several additional factors must be considered in making an award of rehabilitative alimony: the supporting spouse’s contributions; foregone opportunities to enhance or improve professional or vocational skills; and the duration of the marriage following completion of the nonsupporting spouse’s professional education.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parsons v. Parsons“Rehabilitative alimony is awarded to enable a former spouse to refresh or enhance the job skills he or she needs to earn a living. The purpose of rehabilitative alimony is to put a spouse in a position to upgrade his or her economic marketability. The purpose of restitu-tional alimony (also called reimbursement alimony) is to reimburse one spouse’s contribution during the marriage to the advanced training or education of the other spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parsons v. Parsons“In determining whether one party should be required to pay another party’s attorney fees, we will consider the property owned by each party; their relative incomes; whether the requesting party’s property is in fixed or liquid assets; and whether either party unreasonably increased the time spent on the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Studt v. Studt
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.