Lewis v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 194 W. Va. 263 - Burnside v. Burnside (1995), 183 W. Va. 451 - Whiting v. Whiting (1990)
47 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 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · Merrill v. Merrill · In re Marriage of Smith · Wanberg v. Wanberg · In Re Marriage of Judd
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“excepting only inherited property and property acquired with separate property which is kept as separate property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficiently detailed and explicit findings to give this court a clear understanding of the basis of the trial court's decision, and to enable it to determine the ground on which the trial court reached its decision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson · Korn v. Korn“"Treating the property held in joint tenancy as part of the marital estate fully accords with the principles and purposes of the Uniform [Marriage and Divorce] Act as adopted in Maine. The exception from the definition of marital property for property acquired by gift, Section 722-A(2)(A), has no application to a transfer during marriage from one spouse to both spouses jointly. Such a transfer, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, must be understood as evidencing an intention to transfer the property to the marital estate.... "This conclusion is consistent with the fundamental conception of marriage, having its roots in community property law, as a partnership or shared enterprise."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.