Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1968
18 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 Cannon v. Lunsford
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and the wife so granted a divorce against the husband shall be entitled to . . . one-third of all the lands whereof her husband was seized . . . and every such final order or judgment shall designate the specific property both real and personal, to which such wife is entitled; . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Turner
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.