Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1959
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 Galutia v. Galutia · Gray v. Gray
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are many circumstances which properly enter into the mind of the court in making such an award, such as the financial ability of the parties, how the property was accumulated, the conduct of the parties, their station in life, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacks v. Jacks““This court will not reverse the decree of the trial court dividing jointly acquired property unless same is contrary to the clear weight of evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. West
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.