Cartwright v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
April 1995
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Dardick v. Dardick · Jaeger v. Jaeger · State v. Conner · In Re Marriage of Mihalovich
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court is vested with considerable discretion in dividing marital property and an appellate court will interfere only if the division is so heavily and unduly weighted in favor of one party as to amount to an abuse of discretion. Cartwright v. Cartwright, 707 S.W.2d 469, 474 (Mo.App.1986). Equal division of property is not required and disproportionate divisions are routinely affirmed. Mika v. Mika, 728 S.W.2d 280, 283 (Mo.App.1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spidle v. Spidle““All property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage and prior to the decree of dissolution is ... presumed to be marital property ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Garner
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.