Walker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Dardick v. Dardick (1984), Holmes v. Holmes (1994)
33 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 Murphy v. Carron · In Re the Marriage of Powers · Kieffer v. Kieffer · Brueggemann v. Brueggemann · Arp v. Arp
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, if the $10,000 retirement account is added to appellant’s other marital property and the cash value of the life insurance and the $900 bank account is added to respondent’s share of the marital property, this court could not say that the distribution of marital property is unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rickard v. Rickard““The trial court is not required to give a detailed finding of fact unless a party requests one. When there is no detailed finding of fact, the facts are assumed to be found in a manner consistent with the judgment. Rule 73.01.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hilton v. Hilton
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.