Rayburn v. Rayburn’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2011
14 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Jones v. Jones · Woodward v. Woodward · Paffel v. Paffel · Turner v. Turner · Olson v. Olson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leaving the parties in a `financial entanglement that would continue for approximately twenty or thirty years and would probably result in further court hearings and cause future animosity between the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Gardner“shared the financial rewards permitted by her husband's advanced degree ... [including] the accumulation of considerable real and personal property ... which was equitably divided upon their divoree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to maintain her life style for a period of adjustment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.