Cassiday v. Cassiday’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Baehr v. Lewin (1993), Lewis v. Lewis (1988)
49 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 Carson v. Carson · Au-Hoy v. Au-Hoy · 1 Haw. App. 324 - Ahlo v. Ahlo · 1 Haw. App. 617 - Horst v. Horst · 3 Haw. App. 602 - Raupp v. Raupp
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“divid[e] and distribut[e] the estate of the parties, real, personal, or mixed, whether community, joint, or separate [,]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]h is includes the discretion to award separate property to the non-owning spouse.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Lewis · Markham v. Markham“[a]s a general rule, it is equitable to award each divorcing party one-half of the after acquisition but during marriage real increase in the net value of property separately owned at the TOM [time of marriage] or acquired during the marriage by gift or inheritance and still separately owned at the TOD [time of divorce]. The real increase is that increase which is not directly attributable to inflation.”
2 later decisions 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.