Carlson v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Cox v. Cox (1994), Brooks v. Brooks (1987)
37 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 · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Burrell v. Burrell · Bussell v. Bussell · Gabaig v. Gabaig
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he act of commingling, in itself, does not automatically establish intent to jointly hold property, and a court always should consider the property's source when determining what assets are available for distribution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) In a judgment in an action for divorce or action declaring a marriage void or at any time after judgment, the court may provide [[Image here]] (4) for the division between the parties of their property, whether joint or separate, acquired only during coverture, in the manner as may be just, and without regard to which of the parties is in fault; however, the court, in making the division, may invade the property of either spouse acquired before marriage when the balancing of the equities between the parties requires it[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. Murray“should not have been deemed a marital asset available for division unless the court specifically found that a 'balancing of the equities between the parties' required invasion of the premarital holding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gambini v. Hamilton
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.