Gallant v. Gallant’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2018
15 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 · Kowalski v. Kowalski · Lone Wolf v. Lone Wolf · Martens v. Metzgar · Richmond v. Richmond
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determination of net income is a question of fact and is reviewed under the clearly erroneous standard. A factual finding will be deemed clearly erroneous if the reviewing court is `left with a definite and firm conviction on the entire record that a mistake has been made....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The award of attorney's fees in a divorcee action is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court ... [and] will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is arbitrary, capricious, manifestly unreasonable, or stems from an improper motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“motion for reconsideration apprised the court of the additional information and arguments he would have presented in his reply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Berry
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.