Wells v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2013
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 State v. Carter · Jones v. Jones · Chris & Dick's Lumber & Hardware v. Tax Commission · STATE, DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Higgs · Ward v. Richfield City
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.
“We review questions of statutory interpretation for correctness giving no deference to the trial court's interpretation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On a petition to modify a divorce decree, the threshold requirement is a showing of a substantial change of circumstances since entry of the divorce decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An award of attorney fees in divorce actions rests within the sound discretion of the trial court, which we will not disturb absent an abuse of discretion.”
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.