Fournier v. Fournier’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 DeNardo v. Fairmount Foundries Cranston, Inc. · Citizens for Preservation of Waterman Lake v. Davis · East Providence Loan Company v. Ernest · 80 Cal. App. 3d 476 - American Center for Education, Inc. v. Cavnar · In Re Armand
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the findings of the trial judge will be given great weight on appeal and will not be disturbed unless it can be shown that such findings are clearly wrong or that the trial justice misconceived or overlooked relevant evidence on a crucial issue.” Fournier v. Fournier, 479 A.2d 708, 715 (R.I.1984).”
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.