Cushman v. Cushman’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2022
23 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 26 U.S.C. § 61 (Payment-in-Kind Tax Treatment Act of 1983)
Relies on Chyung v. Chyung · 86 Conn. App. 665 - Chyung v. Chi Han Chyung · 91 Conn. App. 840 - Gervais v. Gervais · Demaria v. Demaria · Hartford Fire Insurance v. Warner
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considered the statutory criteria pursuant to ... [§] 46b-82 including the length of the marriage, the causes for the dissolution of the marriage, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of income, earning capacity, vocational skills, education, employability, estate and needs of each of the parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a modification of alimony is requested on the basis of the [parties'] separation agreement, [however] the court must look to the agreement. Separation agreements incorporated by reference into dissolution judgments are to be interpreted consistently with accepted principles governing contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The construction of a contract to ascertain the intent of the parties presents a question of law when the contract or agreement is unambiguous within the four corners of the instrument.... The scope of review in such cases is plenary.”
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.