166 Ind. App. 572 - Howland v. Howland’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2009
16 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 133 Ind. App. 567 - Bahre v. Bahre · Watkins v. Watkins · 152 Ind. App. 675 - Hardiman v. Hardiman · 158 Ind. App. 649 - Wellington v. Wellington · 119 Ind. App. 360 - Lucas v. Lucas
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First and most elemental in any fair, equitable distribution of property is a knowledge of the totality of the property in which the parties to the divorcee hold an interest. The award of a single peppercorn to a bestial husband-defendant may be wholly shocking to the conscience if the sum total of the property of the marriage or of the parties thereto is that single peppercorn. On the other hand, an award of a million dollars to a cuckold but loving and devoted husband, who solely by reason of permanent physical disablement is without property or income, may be a mere pittance if the adulterous wife owns independently, a majority of the shares of General Motors, LB.M. and A.T. & T., the Hope Diamond, the State of Texas and lifetime 50-yard line seats to all Notre Dame football games.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery v. Faust“A trial court commits an abuse of discretion if it orders a property distribution without knowing the value of the property it is distributing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery v. Faust
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.