Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) the educational level of each spouse at the time of marriage and at the time the action is commenced; (B) whether an interruption in the ed-ueation, training, or employment of a spouse who is seeking maintenance occurred during the marriage as a result of homemaking or child care responsibilities, or both; (C) the earning capacity of each spouse, including educational background, training, employment skills, work experience, and length of presence in or absence from the job market; and (D) the time and expense necessary to aequire sufficient education or training to enable the spouse who is seeking maintenance to find appropriate employment; a court may find that rehabilitative maintenance for the spouse seeking maintenance is necessary in an amount and for a period of time that the court considers appropriate, but not to exceed three (8) years from the date of the final decree.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lloyd v. Lloyd · Cannon v. Cannon

2. “[ujlpon ... the written request of any party filed with the court prior to the admission of evidence, the court in all actions tried upon the facts without a jury or with an advisory jury ... shall find the facts specially and state its conclusion thereon.”

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

3. “Bartrom does not change the long-standing general rule that, in dissolution actions, the marital estate closes on the date the dissolution petition was filed”

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