Howell v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 2008 UT App 11 - Stonehocker v. Stonehocker (2008), Bradford v. Bradford (1999)
33 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 Jones v. Jones · Gardner v. Gardner · Davis v. Davis · Paffel v. Paffel · Fletcher v. Fletcher
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be necessarily lower than needed to maintain an appropriate standard of living for various reasons, including, possibly, lack of income.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]s a general rule, the court should look to the standard of living[ ] existing at the time of separation,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“disavowed the notion that 'standard of living is determined by actual expenses alone.'”
2 later decisions 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.