Irena Dyndul v. Michael Dyndul’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Banks v. International Rental & Leasing Corp. (2011), Stridiron v. Stridiron (1983)
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Lopez v. Lopez · Chalmers v. Chalmers · Coleman v. Coleman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute, and to the extent not so expressed, as generally understood and applied in the United States, shall be the rules of decision in the courts of the Virgin Islands in cases to which they apply, in the absence of local laws to the contrary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the purposes of this section a homestead shall constitute the abode including land and building, owned by, and actually occupied by, a person, or by members of his family free of rental charges. Rental of any portion of the homestead for any purpose shall not adversely affect the homestead protection provided for in subsection (b) of this section. (Emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o date, the only such authority the legislature has seen fit to bestow on divorce courts is the power to award a homestead.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.