Steffens v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2017
23 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 Johnson v. Johnson · Holt v. Holt · Peterson v. Peterson · Whalen v. Whalen · In Re the Marriage of Shima
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a judicial mind, in view of the law and circumstances of the particular case, could reasonably have reached such a conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court should, if possible, ascertain and enforce the mutual intention of the parties as set forth in their agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kroupa v. Kroupa“[r]educing child support payments to compensate for an overpayment of alimony equates to 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'”
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.