Meyer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2007
16 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 Baron v. Baron · Peterson v. Peterson · Bohl v. Bohl · Caldwell v. Caldwell · Meile v. Meile
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We expressly hold that a trial judge * * * is not bound by any mathematical formula but shall make such award from the material factors before him having due regard for equity and the circumstances of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swenson v. Swenson
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.