Harrelson v. Harrelson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2013
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
Relies on Merrill v. Merrill · Wanberg v. Wanberg · Cox v. Cox · Dura Corp. v. Harned · Doyle v. Doyle
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) the length of the marriage and station in life of the parties during the marriage; (B) the age and health of the parties; (C) the earning capacity of the parties, ... (D) the financial condition of the parties, . (E) the conduct of the parties, including whether there has been unreasonable depletion of marital assets; (F) the desirability of awarding the family home, ... (G) the circumstances and necessities of each party; (H) the time and manner of acquisition of the property in question; and (I) the income-producing capacity of the property and the value of the property at the time of division.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McLaren v. McLaren · Green v. Green“for the division between the parties of their property, including retirement benefits, whether joint or separate, acquired only during marriage, in a just manner and without regard to which of the parties is in fault; however, the court, in making the division, may invade the property, including retirement benefits, of either spouse acquired before marriage when the balancing of the equities between the parties requires it....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLaren v. McLaren“determining whether property should be characterized as marital are ... `(1) the use of property as the parties' personal residence ..., (2) the ongoing maintenance and managing of the property by both parties,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beal v. Beal
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.