Wassif v. Wassif

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that court did not abuse its discretion in awarding alimony to spouse who owned $500,-000 interest in marital home and numerous condominium properties
• noting that in family law matters, the Court “has limited review under the Supremacy Clause to a determination whether Congress has ‘positively required by direct enactment’ that the state law be preempted.”
• relying on H.R.Rep. No. 432, Part II, 98th Cong., 2d Sess., reprinted in the 1984 U.S.Code Cong. & Admim.News 697, 1140

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Nichols v. Tedder
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-06-28· cited 194×
• Dietz v. Dietz
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-10-19· cited 75×
• Miller v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-31· cited 55×
• Gentile v. Gentile
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-08-01· cited 54×
• Broseus v. Broseus
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-03-06· cited 52×
• Serrano v. Serrano
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-11-21· cited 41×
• Reuter v. Reuter
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-10-11· cited 41×
• Doser v. Doser
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-07· cited 36×
• Rock v. Rock
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-04-01· cited 35×
• Lemley v. Lemley
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-10-31· cited 35×
• Monterey County v. Cornejo
  California Supreme Court· 1991-07-18· cited 32×
• In Re the Marriage of Peacock
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-04-27· cited 26×
• Gwodz v. Gwodz
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1989-06-20· cited 23×
• Motes v. Motes
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-11-16· cited 22×
• Kline v. Kline
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-11-15· cited 21×
• Imagnu v. Wodajo
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-04· cited 21×
• Harbom v. Harbom
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-10-03· cited 20×
• Dunlap v. Fiorenza
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-30· cited 20×
• Babka v. Babka
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-03-09· cited 19×
• Blake v. Blake
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-09· cited 19×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cross v. Cross
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-11-17· cited 106×
• Holston v. Holston
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-06· cited 68×
• Fudenberg v. Molstad
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1986-07-08· cited 51×
• Lincoln v. Lincoln
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-08-11· cited 46×
• Prahinski v. Prahinski
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-09-02· cited 40×
• Davis v. Fair
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1986-03-27· cited 40×
• Crawford v. Crawford
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-07· cited 39×
• Lorenz v. Lorenz
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1988-02-01· cited 38×
• Marriage of Pergolski v. Pergolski
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1988-01-19· cited 35×
• Benkin v. Benkin
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-06· cited 26×
• Marriage of Theroux v. Boehmler
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-08-11· cited 24×
• Marriage of Gerardy v. Gerardy
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-05-19· cited 18×