55 Md. App. 373 - Schweizer v. Schweizer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Schweizer v. Schweizer (1984), 64 Md. App. 487 - Rosenberg v. Rosenberg (1985)
35 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 Harper v. Harper · 52 Md. App. 336 - Ward v. Ward · Danziger v. Danziger · Hoge v. Hoge · Njw v. Wew
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The contributions, monetary and nonmonetary, of each party to the well-being of the family; (2) The value of all property interest of each spouse. (3) The economic circumstances of each spouse at the time the award is to be made; (4) The circumstances and facts which contributed to the estrangement of the parties; (5) The duration of the marriage; (6) The age and the physical and mental condition of the parties; (7) How and when specific marital property was acquired, including the effort expended by each party in accumulating the marital property; (8) Any award or other provision which the court has made under this Subtitle 6A with respect to family use personal property or the family home, and any award of alimony; and (9) Such other factors as the court deems necessary or appropriate to consider in order to arrive at a fair and equitable monetary award. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f one of the spouses takes on debt during the marriage to purchase marital property, and that debt or a portion thereof is outstanding at the time a monetary award is being considered, then the value of the marital property eligible for equitable distribution must be adjusted downward to reflect the unpaid liability. The value of marital property has not been “acquired,” and therefore is immune from distribution, to the extent that the source of funds employed to finance the property is an outstanding debt, irrespective of how the debt is titled or secured. Id. at 378 , 462 A.2d 562 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The amount of the award of counsel fees is within the discretion of the chancellor, and although his discretion is subject to review by this Court, the award should not be disturbed unless he exercised his discretion arbitrarily or his judgment was clearly wrong.”
1 later decision 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.