Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources v. Vine (1983), State v. Rice (1980)
2 district · 36 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 Ramsey v. Hand · Drummond v. Drummond · Herzmark v. Herzmark · Bush v. Bush · Flannery v. Flannery
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Undoubtedly, the court knew the amount of the award was to equalize the property awarded the husband. Notwithstanding this knowledge, there can be no valid argument that it was not the court’s intention to make the award alimony as requested by the parties. . . .” (p. 349.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of a nunc pro tunc order is to provide a means of entering the actual judgment of the trial court which for one reason or another was not properly recorded. The right to make the order is based on the failure to accurately record the court's decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith
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.