McKey v. McKey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2006
8 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 Abraham v. Abraham · 400 So. 2d 1096 - Deliberto v. Deliberto · Babin v. Nolan · 433 So. 2d 225 - Babin v. Babin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the separate property of a spouse has increased in value as a result of the uncompensated common labor or industry of the spouses, the other spouse is entitled to be reimbursed from the spouse whose property has increased in value one-half of the increase attributed to the common labor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"First. What was the condition of the property at the time of the marriage? Second. What would be the value of such property at the dissolution of the community, in the state in which it was at the time of the marriage? Third. What was the real value of the said property, with all the improvements existing thereon, in the condition in which it was at the time of the dissolution of the community? Fourth. What is the difference between the two estimates? Deliberto v. Deliverto, [ Deliberto ], 400 So. 2d 1096, 1099 (La.App. 1st Cir.1981), citing Babin v. Nolan, 6 Rob. 508, 514 (1844).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(FN 6.) Where both community improvements to separate property and enhancement of value by "uncompensated common labor and industry" are involved, as here, a formula must be devised to prevent the claiming spouse from reaping double benefit for the expenses. Although we do not reach this issue because of our conclusion here, a fair method of resolving the matter would be to determine the enhanced value. . . . [t]hen determine the value of the improvements placed on the separate property and subtract that amount from the enhanced value before dividing enhanced value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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