Weeks v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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.

1. “The lower court was concerned principally with support and proper maintenance of the children, not the wife. So far as the home was concerned and the continuing opportunity of the children to reside in the neighborhood of their birth, among their friends and in familiar surroundings during their minority, that could just as well have been accomplished by imposing a “burden” upon it for the benefit of the children as permitted in NRS 125.150(1), allowing them and the mother to continue to live there during their minority, which does not require vesting sole ownership of the home in the wife.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schick v. Schick

2. “as appears just and equitable, having regard to the respective merits of the parties and to the condition in which they will be left by the divorce, and to the party through whom the property was acquired... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNabney v. McNabney

3. “Equal distribution of the community property appears to be the rule in most cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNabney v. McNabney