Binkley v. Binkley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2018
23 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 Golleher v. Golleher · Leady v. State · Barriger v. Barriger · Anderson v. Anderson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acceptance, in toto, of an advocate’s proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree in a contested case, while not per se erroneous, is of doubtful utility. Leady v. State, 714 S.W.2d 221, 222 (Mo.App.1986). Memorandum from counsel can be helpful to the trial court in drafting its decree. The final decree however, is the court’s decree not counsel’s. Even the most conscientious advocate cannot reasonably be expected to prepare a document which would reflect precisely the trial court’s view of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stelling v. Stelling
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.