Moss v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2001
16 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 Colley v. Colley · Inman v. Inman · Wilhoit v. Wilhoit · Browning v. Browning · Chapman v. Chapman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) All property acquired by either spouse after the marriage and before a decree of legal separation is presumed to be marital property, regardless of whether title is held individually or by the spouses in some form of coownership such as joint tenancy, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entirety, and community property. The presumption of marital property is overcome by a showing that the property was acquired by a method listed in subsection (2) of this section ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heller v. Heller“A license, however, is an illusory asset, one which represents merely a potential for increased earnings. The license is no more and no less than the authorized right to engage in the profession selected. To say the license has no value obviously would be wrong, but it is just as obvious that such value is only intrinsic and intangible and not equatable with dollar amounts as are things of extrinsic and tangible value. Id., at 374 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beeler v. Beeler“overcome by a showing that the property was acquired by [gift, bequest, devise, or descent.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.