Shepherd v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2024
14 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 · State v. Walker · Davis v. Meno Guaranty Bank of Meno · Matter of Estate of Bartell · Saunders v. Sharp
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'if the trial court uses a date other than the date of the divorce decree, it must support its decision with sufficiently detailed findings of fact explaining its deviation from the general rule”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Generally, the marital estate is valued at the time of the divorce decree or trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'There is no fixed formula upon which to determine a division of properties in a divorce action[;] the trial court has considerable latitude in adjusting financial and property interests, and its actions are entitled to a presumption of validity.'”
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.