Rose v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2014
17 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 Merrill v. Merrill · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Hunt v. Hunt · Vanover v. Vanover · Morris v. Morris
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n marriages of short duration, where there has been no significant commingling of assets between the parties, the trial court may, without abusing its discretion, treat the property division as an action in the nature of rescission, aimed at placing the parties in, as closely as possible, the financial position they would have occupied had no marriage taken place.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pfeil v. Lock · Forshee v. Forshee“the respective ages of the parties; their earning ability; the duration and conduct of each during the marriage; their station in life; the circumstances and necessities of each; their health and physical condition; their financial circumstances, including the time and manner of acquisition of the property in question, its value at the time and its income producing capacity if any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis“We have long recognized the trial court's broad discretion in determining a just disposition of property based upon the particular facts before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Musser v. Johnson
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.