Lord v. Lord’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably In re Christina M. (2006), Lowe v. Lowe (1997)
41 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Grayson v. Grayson · Sands v. Sands · Cunningham v. Heard · Tessitore v. Tessitore
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he power to act equitably is the keystone to the court's ability to fashion relief in the infinite variety of circumstances that arise out of the dissolution of a marriage.... These equitable powers give the court the authority to consider all the circumstances that may be appropriate for a just and equitable resolution of the marital dispute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such other relief as the court deems appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant did not claim, nor did he demonstrate to the trial court, that his request was made to prevent prejudice to his own case.”
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.