Baum v. Baum’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Edsall v. SUPER. CT. IN & FOR COUNTY OF PIMA (1984), 178 W. Va. 33 - Butcher v. Butcher (1987)
37 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 64 Cal. 2d 778 - See v. See · 6 Cal. 3d 12 - Beam v. Bank of America · Blaine v. Blaine · Michelson v. Michelson · Hatch v. Hatch
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To rule otherwise would be to require all married persons to keep detailed accounts of all the money they spent during the marriage and of all community expenses. We do not believe this is the intent of the Arizona statutes regulating the distribution of assets in dissolution proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bobrow v. Bobrow““... that a spouse who elects to expend separate property on community expenses is entitled to reimbursement from the community or separate property of the other spouse only if there is an agreement to that effect.” (Emphasis in original) 120 Ariz. at 146 , 584 P.2d at 610 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malecky v. Malecky““Even if we assume the trial court’s ruling that the funds were not traceable was erroneous, we must reject the wife’s position____” 120 Ariz. at 146 , 584 P.2d at 610 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malecky v. Malecky
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.