Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cates v. Cates · Bixler v. Bixler · Schroeder v. Schroeder · Thill v. Thill · Allen v. Allen
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of a spouse receiving maintenance to expend a good faith effort within a reasonable time to obtain employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A court should consider the obligation of a spouse to contribute to his or her own support.”
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.