Warren v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Russell v. Russell (1982), 23 Ark. App. 203 - Lofton v. Lofton (1988)
58 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 Roulston v. Hall · Union & Mercantile Trust Co. v. Hudson · Alston v. Bitely · Brun v. Rembert · Ring v. Ring
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts of equity, designated Chancery Courts within the State of Arkansas, shall have the power to dissolve estates by the entirety or survivorship, in real or personal property, upon the rendition of a final decree of divorcement, and in the division and partition of said property, so held by said parties, shall treat the parties as tenants in common.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) At the time a divorce decree is entered: (1)(A) All marital property shall be distributed one-half (V2) to each party unless the court finds such a division to be inequitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Banks v. Evans
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.