David v. David’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2024
10 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 In Re the Marriage of Brown · 81 Wis. 2d 620 - Leighton v. Leighton · Grosskopf v. Grosskopf · Ridgway v. Ridgway · Rhinehart v. Rhinehart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a corollary of both rules the confluence effect is that even though property settlements are favored by the courts and are generally recognized in Wyoming, the parties cannot oust a court’s statutory duty to ‘make such disposition of the property of the parties as appears just and equitable’ by entering into a property settlement agreement which the judge cannot in good conscience approve and adopt when granting a divorce.” Id. at 1143 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haltom v. Haltom“In granting a divorce, the court shall make such disposition of the property of the parties as appears just and equitable, having regard for the respective merits of the parties and the condition in which they will be left by the divorce, the party through whom the property was acquired and the burdens imposed upon the property for the benefit of either party and children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Overcast v. Overcast
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.