Bishop v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2013
18 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 Harden v. Harden · Javine v. Javine · Dutton v. Dutton · Oder v. Oder · Bowen v. Bowen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On granting a divorce to either the husband or wife, the court is required by [the statute that now appears as 12 O.S. 1961 § 1278, supra] to make a just, fair, and equitable division of the properties acquired' by the parties jointly during their marriage. In doing so the court is not required to divide the property equally between the parties, but is given a wide latitude in determining just what part of the jointly accumulated properties shall be given to each of the parties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... the wife ... shall be allowed such alimony out of the husband’s real and personal property as the court shall think reasonable, giving due regard to the value of his real and personal estate at the time of said divorce; which alimony may be allowed to her in real or personal property, or both, or by decreeing to her such sum of money, payable either in gross or in installments, as the court may deem just and equitable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayhue v. Mayhue“As to such property, whether real or personal, as shall have been acquired by the parties jointly during their marriage, whether the title thereto be in either or both of said parties, the court shall make such division between the parties respectively as may appear 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.