92 Conn. App. 812 - Dees v. Dees’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the length of the marriage, the causes for the annulment, dissolution of the marriage or legal separation, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, earning capacity, vocational skills, education, employability, estate and needs of each of the parties and the award, if any, which the court may make pursuant to section 46b-81 ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 368 - Emerick v. Emerick

2. “In awarding alimony, [t]he court must consider all of these criteria. ... It need not, however, make explicit reference to the statutory criteria that it considered in making its decision or make express findings as to each statutory factor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 368 - Emerick v. Emerick

3. “The trial court may place varying degrees of importance on each criterion according to the factual circumstances of each case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Conn. App. 368 - Emerick v. Emerick