Burwell v. Burwell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2017
1 district · 8 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 Galella v. Onassis · Davis v. United States · Andrade v. Jackson · Cruz-Foster v. Foster · Leftwich v. Leftwich
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he divorce law contains no presumption in favor of an equal distribution of property; instead, it requires the court to divide the marital property `in a manner that is equitable, just and reasonable'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friezo v. Friezo
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.