Day v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Liles v. Liles (1986), Wilson v. Wilson (1987)
2 district · 112 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 15 Cal. 3d 838 - In Re Marriage of Brown · 17 Cal. 2d 775 - French v. French · Sweeney v. Sweeney · Potter v. Potter · Hackett v. Hackett
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the court finds such a division to be inequitable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morrison v. Morrison · Gray v. Gray“all property acquired by either spouse subsequent to marriage,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Goode v. Goode · Meeks v. Meeks“We now realize that we have inadvertently failed to recognize the new concept “of marital property,” created by Act 705 of 1979, as amended. That statute defines marital property as all property acquired by either spouse subsequent to the marriage with exceptions not important here. Section 34-1214 (Supp. 1983). That law directs that all marital property be distributed equally unless the court finds that division inequitable . . . Under the recent holdings of the Supreme Court, spouses must be treated equally in the absence of a valid reason for making a distinction. Our 1979 law was enacted pursuant to that mandate and must be construed in harmony with that intent. It is easy to demonstrate that the legislative purpose will be frustrated if controlling differences are drawn between pensions vested and currently payable and those that are vested but payable in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meinholz v. Meinholz
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.