Cummings v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Kimball v. Kimball (2009), Hall v. Hall (1993)
24 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 Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Jones v. Jones · Hutchison v. Hutchison · Hogge v. Hogge · Maughan v. Maughan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court's factual determinations are clearly erroneous only if they are in conflict with the clear weight of the evidence, or if this court has a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kimball v. Kimball · R.B. v. L.B.“A challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence concerns the trial court's findings of fact. Those findings will not be disturbed unless they are clearly erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kimball v. Kimball · R.B. v. L.B.“according no particular deference to the trial court.”
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.