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Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 2022
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2022

15 state decisions

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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 Gratrix v. Gratrix · Lone Wolf v. Lone Wolf · Martens v. Metzgar · Hunt v. Hunt · Houger v. Houger

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the spouses understand fully the nature and consequences of their action” and that "the written agreements between the spouses concerning maintenance and tax consequences, if any, divi sion of property, including retirement benefits, and allocation of obligations are fair and just[.]” In contrast, with divorces there is no "affirmative duty on a trial court to examine every property settlement reached by the parties to determine if it is just.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Notkin v. Notkin
  2. “When a stipulation is admitted by both parties or their attorneys in open court and there is no dispute as to the material terms of the settlement, the stipulation is enforceable between the parties absent fraud, duress, or concealment....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Chilkoot Lumber Co. v. Rainbow Glacier Seafoods, Inc.
  3. “use a heightened level of scrutiny” in reviewing a property agreement if there is a minor child of the marriage or”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Notkin v. Notkin

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.