Bain v. Bain’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2018
18 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 Griffin v. State · 520 So. 2d 582 - King v. State · Harris v. State · 500 So. 2d 540 - Florida Bar v. Stahl · 538 So. 2d 1250 - Cordar v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the valuation of a retirement plan should exclude any contributions made after the original final judgment of dissolution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We note also a danger that the retirement pension will ultimately be used as a basis for determining alimony as well as for equitable distribution purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, a 50/50 split of marital assets is not required, but is a good starting point.”
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.