Amodio v. Amodio’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 183 W. Va. 528 - Bettinger v. Bettinger (1990), 9 Va. App. 1 - Bosserman v. Bosserman (1989)
33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no uniform rule for valuing stock in closely held corporations.... ... Whatever method is used, however, must take into consideration inhibitions on the transfer of the corporate interest resulting from a limited market or contractual provisions. If transfer of the stock of a closely held corporation is restricted by a bona fide buy-sell agreement which predates the marital discord, the price fixed by the agreement, although not conclusive, is a factor which should be considered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only evidence in the record of [the corporation's] actual value.”
1 later decision 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.