Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Johnson (1989), Klein v. Klein (1988)
26 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 Jones v. Jones · English v. English · Higley v. Higley · Read v. Read · Dority v. Dority
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need” of the recipient nonstudent spouse, the trial court is not limited to considering only the low living expenses incurred during the time that the other spouse studied to obtain an advanced degree. The Utah Supreme Court recently stated in Gardner , a case also involving an advanced degree, that alimony should "equalize the parties’ respective standards of living and maintain them at a level as close as possible to the standard of living enjoyed during the marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has experienced a temporary decrease in income, his historical earnings must be taken into account in determining the amount of alimony to be paid”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Turning to the record in the absence of sufficient findings, we find conflicting evidence on some factual issues material to a determination of the wife's financial condition and needs. Nevertheless, even accepting as true, for purposes of review, the [appellant] wife's evidence on these issues, we find no abuse of discretion in the amount of alimony awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlton v. Carlton
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.