Beall v. Beall’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Quick v. Quick (1982), Coble v. Coble (1980)
138 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 Eudy v. Eudy · Sayland Ex Rel. McLendon v. Sayland · Conrad v. Conrad · Joyner v. Joyner · Rock v. Ballou
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o base an award on capacity to earn rather than actual earnings, there should be a finding based on evidence that the husband was failing to exercise his capacity to earn because of a disregard of his marital obligation to provide reasonable support for his wife.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 50-13.4. . . . (c) Payments ordered for the support óf a minor child shall be in such amount as to meet the reasonable needs of the child for health, education, and maintenance, having due regard to the estates, earnings, conditions, accustomed standard of living of the child and the parties, and other facts of the particular case.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining the amount of alimony the trial judge must follow the requirements of the applicable statutes. Consideration must be given to the needs of the dependent spouse, but the estates and earnings of both spouses must be considered. "It is a question of fairness and justice to all parties."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.