Gallant v. Gallant’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2018
16 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Merrill v. Merrill · Bush v. Taylor · Lone Wolf v. Lone Wolf · Doyle v. Doyle · Richard v. City of Chicago
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.
“A pension, like any other marital asset, should be valued as of the date of trial. The earlier date when the marriage has functionally terminated ... is the date used for segregating marital from post-marital property.... The value of the marital component should be assessed as of the trial date ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leis v. Hustad“The trial court in this case simply set the adjusted income without explaining its calculation of gross income or the amounts and types of deductions. We remand for specific findings on the parties' adjusted income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farr v. Little
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.