Mocnik v. Mocnik’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Brozek v. Brozek (2016), 108 Md. App. 633 - Skrabak v. Skrabak (1996)
26 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 Johnson v. Johnson · 103 Wis. 2d 327 - Holbrook v. Holbrook · Hertz v. Hertz · Hanson v. Hanson · Saint-Pierre v. Saint-Pierre
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f goodwill is to be divided as an asset, its value should be determined either by an agreement or by its fair market value. Both of these methods are widely accepted for valuing goodwill.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We held in Travis that the law practice of a sole practitioner had no goodwill value because 'the reputation of the lawyer cannot be purchased by another seeking to acquire an established practice.' This is especially true when the professional is a sole practitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The 'goodwill value of any business is the value that results from the probability that old customers will continue to trade with an established concern.”
1 later decision 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.