Igo v. Igo’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2004
7 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 Martin v. State · Grosskopf v. Grosskopf
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he court shall make such disposition of the property of the parties as appears just and equitable, having regard for the respective merits of the parties and the condition in which they will be left by the divorce, the party through whom the property was acquired and the burdens imposed upon the property for the benefit of either party and children.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wren v. Wren · Overcast v. Overcast“On appeal we review the evidence in favor of [the prevailing party], giving that evidence every reasonable inference that can be drawn and ignoring * * * evidence [of the losing party]. We defer to the trial court’s exercise of broad discretion in adjusting the parties’ rights and obligations upon marriage dissolution. We will not disturb that decision unless we find that the court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connors v. Connors
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.