Angelli v. Sherway’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2005
7 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 Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp. · Adams v. Jankouskas · Hurd v. Hughes · 99 Wash. 2d 905 - Matter of Marriage of Pratt · Price v. Price
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the Family Court has succeeded to certain of the equitable powers of the Court of Chancery, that authority may be exercised only in aid of, or to implement, its statutory authority. Child Support Enforcement v. Smallwood, Del.Supr., 526 A.2d 1353, 1356 (1987). Thus, the Family Court’s equitable authority to allocate the parties’ property interests, ... is limited to the grant of ancillary relief incident to a divorce proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the decree granting or denying a petition for divorce or annulment, or by separate order or orders preceding or following such decree, the Court shall dispose of all other prayers for relief, where appropriate under the facts and law; but an application for suck relief and a hearing thereon must be presented in the petition or response, or by motion after notice to the other party prior to the entry or denial of such decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Family Court lacks a statutory predicate upon which to fashion further relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sl v. Al
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.