Fields v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1989
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be admitted that the claim of a third party in the home alleged to be owned by the entireties complexes the situation, but this is not a recognized basis for dismissing the bill. It is an impressive example of the complicated human relations that are now precipitating suits of this kind that the rules of procedure should be equal to and not be permitted to break under. It would not be difficult to generate two law suits from the situation but the divorce, the title to the home, the matter of alimony and the matter of restitution are all so involved that the same evidence may have to do with each of them so there is every reason whey they should be adjudicated in one suit and we are shown no reason why they should not be considered together. Allegations of the amended bill are sufficient to show merit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The law is a medium for adjusting conflicting interests that may constantly arise from more and more complicated social relations. It should not be permitted to become a code of abstract rules leading to confusion and dismay in the adjustment of these relations. The court has repeatedly adjudicated property rights along with the marital status. If there is any theory under which one lawsuit will suffice there is no reason for generating another."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If there is any theory under which one lawsuit will suffice there is no reason for generating another."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rankin v. Rankin
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.