Lance v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2014
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 Murphy v. Carron · Woolridge v. Woolridge · Tbg v. Cag · Dardick v. Dardick · Corder v. Corder
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.
“[the appellant’s] forgone income, [the respondent’s] attorney’s fees, the economic circumstances of each spouse at the time the division of property is to become effective, the contribution of each spouse to the acquisition of marital property, the value of non-marital property set apart to each spouse, the conduct of the parties during the marriage, and the other statutory factors set forth in Section 452.330 RSMo 2000.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sullivan v. Sullivan“[wjhere real estate is affected by a dissolution decree either by setting apart non-marital property and thereby extinguishing one spouse’s claim through the marriage relationship or by division of marital property as equivalent to conveyance, full legal descriptions must be included in the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers“A certified copy of any decree of court affecting title to real estate may be filed for record in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county and state in which the real estate is situated by the clerk of the court in which the decree was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ricklefs v. Ricklefs
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.