Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1987
4 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 Dakan v. Dakan · Smith v. Smith · Allen v. Allen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * No complaint is made that the judgment of the trial court, in so far as it undertakes to divide the estates of the partieseis to any extent unfair or unjust. • There is ample support in the record for the finding as to the amount advanced by appellee. By statute, the court is prohibited from compelling either party to divest himself or herself of the title to real estate. Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., Art. 4638. Subject to that limitation, it has been repeatedly held that the trial court, in granting a divorce, has broad discretion in dividing the property of the parties, and, unless such discretion is' abused, such division will not be disturbed on appeal. No abuse of-discretion is here shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.