Hunt v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably New Alaska Development Corp. v. Guetschow (1989), Ogard v. Ogard (1991)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Merrill v. Merrill · Dugan v. Dugan · Bussell v. Bussell · Curley v. Curley · Headlough v. Headlough
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[property acquired after the permanent separation but prior to final divorce should be included in the property settlement if it was acquired with property which would otherwise have been subject to division.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if this court has a definite and firm conviction based on the record as a whole that a mistake has been made or the trial court abused its discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. A.H. v. W.P. · Ah v. Wp“We have announced a policy of encouraging trial courts to provide for parties' financial needs by property disposition, rather than by alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnett v. Barnett
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.