Bliss v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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 Belanger v. Belanger · Axtell v. Axtell · MacDonald v. MacDonald · Northern Utilities, Inc. v. City of South Portland · Cyr v. Cyr
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. The contribution of each spouse to the acquisition of the marital property, including the contribution of a spouse as homemaker; B. The value of the property set aside to each spouse; and C. The economic circumstances of each spouse at the time of the division of property is to become effective, including the desirability of awarding the family home or the right to live in the home for reasonable periods to the spouse having custody of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Morin“under the guise of a clarification order make any material change that will modify the property division provided by the original judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Morin
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.