Ford v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Liles v. Liles (1986), Wilson v. Wilson (1987)
25 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 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Rummell · Lytle v. Lytle · Lewis v. Lewis · Cook v. Cook · McGuire v. McGuire
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) At the time a divorce decree is entered: (1) All marital property shall be distributed one-half (¥2) to each party unless the Court finds such a division to be inequitable. . . . (Emphasis Added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Age, health, and station in life of the parties: Barbara Liles was 45 years old and Tommy Liles was 42 years old at the time of this hearing. The health of both appears to be average, although Tommy Liles may be unable to perform some manual labor because of his injury. However, he intended to buy and restore antique cars, invest in grocery stores, and pilot an airplane up and down the U. S. coast in search of similarly injured seamen. Barbara Liles is a nurse and apparently has the health to continue this type of work. The station in life of both parties has been enhanced'by the personal injury award and it appears that both would enjoy the same station in life with an equitable division of the settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liles v. Liles“(3) Every such final order or judgment shall designate the specific property both real and personal, to which each party is entitled;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Russell
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.