Swann v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2004
5 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 Stern v. Stern · Agricultural Services Ass'n v. Ferry-Morse Seed Co. · 16 Wash. App. 481 - In Re Marriage of Lukens · Rosenberg v. J. C. Penney Co. · Smith v. Bull
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“goodwill of a professional practice has been held to be community property subject to division in a marriage dissolution proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the advantage or benefit the business has beyond the mere value of its property and capital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“subject to evaluation as a valuable asset of the firm for other purposes.”
1 later decision 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.