Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2019
14 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 · Brooks v. Brooks · Julsen v. Julsen · Carlson v. Carlson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the division between the parties of their property, including retirement benefits, whether joint or separate, acquired only during marriage, in a just manner and without regard to which of the parties is in fault; however, the court, in making the division, may invade the property, including retirement benefits, of either spouse acquired before marriage when the balancing of the equities between the parties requires it....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McLaren v. McLaren · Chase v. Chase“assess whether the equities require invasion of separate assets under AS 25.24.160(a)(4); and if so ... enter explicit findings to that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLaren v. McLaren“We note that property acquired by the Murrays as a couple may be marital property even if the acquisition predates the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gambini v. Hamilton
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.