Weaver v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2013
6 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 Harden v. Harden
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. .. there is no cireum-stance justifying the conclusion that it was in any sense acquired by the joint industry of the parties, or jointly acquired by the parties.... The parties never lived together after [the husband] acquired [the property] ... We therefore conclude that the property involved could not necessarily be said to have been jointly acquired within the meaning of the statute. (now 48 0.8.2011 § 121)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Janitz v. Janitz
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.