Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Bender v. Bender (2001), 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364 - Davidson v. Davidson (1985)
60 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 Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Stern v. Stern · 5 Wash. App. 741 - DeRevere v. DeRevere · Peters v. Peters
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The exigencies of a particular case can be best determined by the trial court, and unless the division of jointly acquired property made by the trial court in a divorce action is against the weight of the evidence and is inequitable, it will not be reversed or modified on appeal."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BAGGS v. BAGGS · Randol v. Randol“. . . “As to such property, whether real or personal, which has been acquired by the parties jointly during their marriage, whether the title thereto be in either or both of said parties, the court shall make such division between the parties as may appear just and reasonable, by a division of the property in kind, or by setting the same apart to one of the parties, and requiring the other thereof to pay such sum as may be just and proper to effect a fair and just division thereof.” ...”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BAGGS v. BAGGS · Duty v. Duty“absent an abuse of discretion, or a finding that the decision is clearly contrary to the weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.