Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Jenkins v. Jenkins (2001), 84 N.C. App. 471 - Geer v. Geer (1987)
35 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 Reid v. Reid · Hussey v. Hussey · Bannen v. Bannen · Shaluly v. Shaluly · Smith v. Smith
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensure that the debts were incurred for the joint benefit of the parties during the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoney v. Stoney“loans from close family members must be closely scrutinized for legitimacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stoney v. Stoney
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.