Moon v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 13 state decisions

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.

1. “The need for stability in custodial relationship and environment; maintaining an existing primary custodial bond; the relative strength of parental bonds; • The relative abilities of the parents to provide care, supervision, and a suitable environment for the children and to meet the needs of the children; Preference of a child able to evaluate the custody question; The benefits of keeping siblings together, enabling sibling bonds to form; The character and emotional stability of the custodian; and The desire for custody; the apparent commitment of the proposed custodian to parenting.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cummings v. Cummings · Rosendahl v. Rosendahl

2. “Premarital property, gifts, and inheritances may be viewed as separate property, and in appropriate circumstances, equity will require that each party retain the separate property brought to the marriage. However, that rule is not invariable. In fashioning an equitable property division, trial courts need consider all of the pertinent circumstances. The factors generally to be considered are the amount and kind of property to be divided; whether the property was acquired before or during the marriage; the source of the property; the health of the parties; the parties’ standard of living, respective financial conditions, needs, and earning capacity; the duration of the marriage; the children of the marriage, the parties’ ages at time of the marriage and of divorce; what the parties gave up by the marriage; and the necessary relationship the property division has with the amount of alimony and child support to be awarded. Of particular concern in a case such as this is whether one spouse has made any contribution toward the growth of separate assets of the other spouse and whether the assets were accumulated or enhanced by the joint efforts of the parties.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Dunn · Hogue v. Hogue

3. “[t]hese factors are highly personal and individual, and do not lend themselves to the means of generalization employed in other areas of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roberts v. Roberts · Tucker v. Tucker