Berman v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2021
9 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 English v. English · O'Dell v. O'Dell · Boyle v. Boyle · Huck v. Huck · Larrabee v. Royal Dairy Products Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it should be noted that in general, prenuptial agreements concerning the disposition of property owned by the parties at the time of their marriage are valid so long as there is no fraud, coercion or material nondisclosure”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D'Aston v. D'Aston“[Prelnuptial agreements are to be construed and treated as are contracts in general. They are in no way different from any other ordinary contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the ordinary and usual meaning of the words used is given effect.”
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.