Heath v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 697 · 1951
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Randall E. Sebold, Sr. v. Irene H. Sebold (1971), 250 F. Supp. 956 - Hardy v. Hardy (1966)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Settle v. Settle · Scholl v. Scholl
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.
“The first part of the statute was found to be substantive; a final divorce terminated the estate by the entireties unless an agreement had been formulated to the contrary. The second provision of [§ 16-910] * * * allows the court when the parties are in that situation to award or apportion the property left, without defined ownership by the first pwrt of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon the entry of a final decree of annulment or absolute divorce, in the absence of a valid antenuptial or post-nuptial agreement in relation thereto, all property rights in * * * tenancy by the entirety shall stand dissolved * * * and the court may * * * apportion [the property] in such manner as seems equitable, just, and reasonable.””
1 later decision 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.