Arndt v. Arndt’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 O'Link v. O'Link · Houger v. Houger · Curley v. Curley · Patch v. Patch
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.
“Division of marital property by the court is separate and distinct from questions of child support. Property divisions are final judgments which can be modified only under limit-éd circumstances, whereas child support awards can be changed periodically under much more liberal standards. One should not be a tradeoff for the other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Aga v. Aga · Flannery v. Flannery“both the needs of the child or children supported as well as the needs and financial abilities of both parents.... [T]he trial court must examine the financial situation of both parents and determine whether the equities justify placing a greater burden on one and a correspondingly lesser burden on the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flannery v. Flannery
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.