Proffit v. Proffit’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Danielson v. Evans (2001), Harris v. Harris (1979)
30 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 Porter v. Porter · 52 Wash. 2d 456 - Decker v. Decker · Stone v. Stidham · Harvey v. Harvey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the present case, the court’s order did not concern Title, but Possession. [Wife] was in possession of a sum of money, obtained from the redemption of savings bonds, title to which had been adjudged in [husband]. The divorce court, as a court of equity, certainly has the inherent power to direct one party to relinquish possession of separate property belonging to the other, just as it has the power to order a division and disposition of the community property of two parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A. In entering a judgment of divorce the court shall order such division of the property of the parties as to the court seems just and right, according to the rights of each of the parties and their children, without compelling either party to divest himself or herself of title to separate property...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Weaver“are clearly differentiated from property settlement payments, the latter of which cannot be enforced by contempt proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Danielson v. Evans
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.