6 Haw. App. 207 - Cassiday v. Cassiday’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]s a general rule, it is equitable to award each divorcing party one-half of the after acquisition but during marriage real increase in the net value of property separately owned at the TOM [time of marriage] or acquired during the marriage by gift or inheritance and still separately owned at the TOD [time of divorce]. The real increase is that increase which is not directly attributable to inflation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 9 Haw. App. 279 - Gussin v. Gussin · Gussin v. Gussin

2. “Support orders; division of property, (a) Upon granting a divorce, or thereafter if, in addition to the powers granted in (c) and (d) of this section, jurisdiction of such matters is reserved under the decree by agreement of both parties or by order of court after finding that good cause exists, the court may make such further orders as shall appear just and equitable (1) compelling the parties or either of them to provide for the support, maintenance, and education of the children of the parties; (2) compelling either party to provide for the support and maintenance of the other party; (3) finally dividing and distributing the estate of the parties, real, personal, or mixed, whether community, joint, or separate; and (4) allocating, as between the parties, the responsibility for the payment of the debts of the parties whether community, joint, or separate, and the attorney’s fees, costs, and expenses incurred by each party by reason of the divorce. In making such further orders, the court shall take into consideration: the respective merits of the parties, the relative abilities of the parties, the condition in which each party will be left by the divorce, the burdens imposed upon either party for the benefit of the children of the parties, and all other circumstances of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Myers v. Myers

3. “[i]t is generally accepted that each divorcing-party is entitled to the date of marriage net value of his or her premarital property and the date of acquisition net value of gifts and inheritances which he or she received during the marriage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 9 Haw. App. 279 - Gussin v. Gussin