Sweeny v. Sweeny’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 19 Conn. App. 146 - Albrecht v. Albrecht (1989), Goold v. Goold (1987)
36 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 Sturman v. Socha · Connolly v. Connolly · Lar-Rob Bus Corp. v. Town of Fairfield · Jacobsen v. Jacobsen · Downs v. National Casualty Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This intent must be determined from the language of the instrument and not from any intention either of the parties may have secretly entertained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as unallocated alimony and child support.”
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.