Hull v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2005
11 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 Meehan v. Meehan · Hicks v. Fielman · In Re Marriage of Owens
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A settlement agreement] gives the parties free rein to make such continuing financial arrangements as, in a spirit of amicability and conciliation, they wish. Such agreements are binding upon the parties if approved by the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) To promote the amicable settlements of disputes that have arisen or may arise between the parties to a marriage attendant upon the dissolution of the marriage, the parties may agree in writing to provisions for ... the disposition of property.... "(b) In an action for dissolution of the marriage the terms of the agreement if approved by the court shall be incorporat ed and merged into the decree and the parties ordered to perform them...."”
2 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.