Hurley v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Dugan v. Dugan (1983), Eslami v. Eslami (1991)
87 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 38 Cal. App. 3d 93 - In Re Marriage of Lopez · LeClert v. LeClert · Spingola v. Spingola · 42 Cal. App. 3d 577 - In Re Marriage of Foster · Michelson v. Michelson
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he length of time the professional has been practicing, his comparative success, his age and health, and any past profits of the practice. Attention should also be given to the physical and fixed resources of the practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hertz v. Hertz“a promise to do what a party is already obligated by contract or law to do is not sufficient consideration for a promise made in return”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele“the value of the practice as a business at the time of dissolution of the community is community property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madrid v. Madrid
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.