Coote v. Coote’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 1981
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cearley v. Cearley · Cooper v. Cooper · Crowell v. Crowell
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In arriving at a just and right property division the trial court considers many factors. They include the relative earning capacities, business experience, and education of the parties; the size of their separate estates; fault in the break up of the marriage, and the benefits the innocent spouse would have received but for the divorce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Stephens
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.