32 Md. App. 644 - Sody v. Sody’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably 58 Md. App. 386 - Sharp v. Sharp (1984), 82 Md. App. 183 - Broseus v. Broseus (1990)
25 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 Dougherty v. Dougherty · Whalen v. Milholland · Lopez v. Lopez · 11 Md. App. 638 - Quinn v. Quinn · 15 Md. App. 503 - Colburn v. Colburn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, the chancellor found sufficient evidence to hold that the intention of the parties was to use the account for their mutual benefit, and concluded that all of the expenditures made by Mrs. Sody, after the new account was established, were proper expenditures, beneficial to Mr. and Mrs. Sody and their children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the husband’s wealth and earning capacity, the station in life of the parties, the assets and income of the wife, their ages, physical conditions and ability to work, the length of time the parties lived together and circumstances leading to the divorce and the fault that destroyed the marital relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the parties mutually intended the funds [in the joint account] to be used for family purposes”
1 later decision 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.