Martinez v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2023
15 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 In Re Marriage of Graham · O'Brien v. O'Brien · Jones v. Jones · English v. English · Grosskopf v. Grosskopf
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Usually the needs of the spouses are assessed in light of the standard of living they had during marriage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hen a marriage of long duration dissolves on the threshold of a major change in the income of one of the spouses due to the collective efforts of both, that change shall be considered ... in determining the amount of alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[iln some cirenmstances, it may be appropriate to try to equalize the spouses' respective standards of living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mullins v. Mullins
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.