Ellis v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably McCarty v. McCarty (1981), In Re Marriage of Graham (1978)
2 federal appellate · 91 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on In Re Questions Submitted by United States Dist. Ct. · In Re Marriage of Ellis · 36 Colo. App. 226 - People v. Van Hook
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““all property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage except: (a) Property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent; (b) Property acquired in exchange for property acquired prior to the marriage or in exchange for property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent; (c) Property acquired by a spouse after a decree of legal separation; and (d) Property excluded by valid agreement of the parties.””
7 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.