Libra v. Libra’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Cook v. Cook (1972), Irena Dyndul v. Michael Dyndul (1976)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Emery v. Emery · Johnson v. Johnson · Hodgson v. Hodgson · Tolson v. Tolson · Bloom v. Bloom
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Therefore, the court did not err in granting the divorce and dividing and adjusting the litigant’s rights in property accumulated by the joint efforts of the parties. The property acquired jointly during the marriage may be divided regardless of whether the title thereto is in either or both of the parties. 27B C.J.S. Divorce § 295(5), p. 304, et. seq.’ ” (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.