Gibson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “answerable for any damage caused by his fault, default or neglect.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Munson v. Munson · 942 So. 2d 1130 - Saacks v. Saacks

2. “In the case sub judice, Delbert simply withdrew all the funds in the retirement account without advising Karen of his intentions. As a result, she suffered a 20% loss of the corpus of the account.... At the very least, she could have decided how and when to withdraw the funds that belonged to her. Therefore, Delbert failed to preserve the former community property "in a manner consistent with the mode of use of that property immediately prior to termination of the community regime." La. Civ.Code art. 2369.3. Surely, it seems that if one purpose of the accounts in question is to avoid tax liability, any act that incurs such liability would be imprudent. Furthermore, bad faith is not required under Article 2369.3 because the spouse is "answerable for any damage caused by his fault, default, or neglect. " Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Munson v. Munson

3. “in a manner consistent with the mode of use of that property immediately prior to termination of the community regime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Munson v. Munson