Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016
17 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 565 So. 2d 820 - Gentile v. Gentile · 491 So. 2d 1124 - Noah v. Noah · 597 So. 2d 835 - Rosenfeld v. Rosenfeld · Bell v. Bell · 606 So. 2d 477 - Dozier v. Dozier
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) the economic circumstances of the parties. ... . (g) the contribution of each spouse ... to the incurring of liabilities ... ... . (j) any other factors necessary to do equity and justice between the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[dissipation occurs “where one spouse uses marital property for his own benefit and for a purpose unrelated to the marriage at a time when the marriage is undergoing an irreconcilable breakdown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herron v. Johnson“Misconduct of a party, however, will not justify an unequal distribution of assets absent evidence demonstrating a sufficient relationship between the misconduct and the dissipation of assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.