Finch v. Marusich’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Moylan v. Moylan · Marriage of Rutten v. Rutten · Beede v. Law · Marriage of Mahady v. Mahady · Scearcy v. Mercado
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A modification of support or maintenance may be made retroactive only with respect to any period during which the petitioning party has pending a motion for modification but only from the date of service of notice of the motion on the responding party* * *”
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.