Kunkle v. Kunkle’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 586 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 593 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Berk v. Matthews (1990), 132 Ohio App. 3d 616 - Bowen v. Bowen (1999)
5 federal appellate · 586 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Cherry v. Cherry · Kaechele v. Kaechele · Holcomb v. Holcomb · Wolfe v. Wolfe
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 593 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except in cases involving a marriage of long duration, parties of advanced age or a homemaker-spouse with little opportunity to develop meaningful employment outside the home, where a payee spouse has the resources, ability and potential to be self-supporting, an award of sustenance alimony should provide for the termination of the award, within a reasonable time and upon a date certain, in order to place a definitive limit upon the parties' rights and responsibilities.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“`As part of a divorce proceeding, a trial court has equitable authority to divide and distribute the marital estate, and then consider whether an award of sustenance alimony would be appropriate.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“look at the totality of the circumstances and determine whether the trial court acted unreasonably, arbitrarily or unconscionably * * *.”
5 later decisions 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.