Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2025
19 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 Tibbetts v. Tibbetts · Bryant v. Bryant · Zillert v. Zillert · West v. West · Grishman v. Grishman
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) determine what of the parties’ property is marital and what is nonmarital, including the contributions each may have made to the acquisition of the marital property, recognizing the contributions of a spouse as a homemaker; (2) set apart to each that spouse’s nonmar-ital property; and (3) divide the marital property between them in such proportion as the court deems just.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n situations ' where a spouse obtains title to real property before the marriage, but mortgage payments are made during the marriage, the property will include both marital and non-marital components.” Williams v. Williams, 645 A.2d 1118, 1120 (Me.1994). In such a case, a trial court must apply the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 953. Disposition of property 2. Definition. For purposes of this section, “marital property” means all property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage, except: E. The increase in value of property acquired prior to the marriage. 3. Acquired subsequent to marriage. All property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage and prior to 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 or community property. The presumption of marital property is overcome by a showing that the property was acquired by a method listed in subsection 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nilsen v. Hanson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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