Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
11 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 Zwerling v. Zwerling
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an independent right to institute a separate action in the family court to determine his interest in the property since the requested relief is not incidental to the divorce decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Allen“is not incorporated in the divorce decree[;] therefore, [husband] may only seek enforcement in the Court of Common Pleas”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Allen“family court lacks jurisdiction because this is an action at law on a contract or trust theory”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Allen
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.