Armstrong v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Davis v. Davis (2006), 111 N.C. App. 460 - Smith v. Smith (1993)
118 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on White v. White · Coble v. Coble · Rothman v. Rothman · Wood v. J. P. Stevens & Co. · Addison v. Addison
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A vested right, entitled to protection from legislation, must be something more than a mere expectation based upon an anticipated continuance of the existing law; it must have become a title, legal or equitable, to the present or future enjoyment of property, a demand, or legal exemption from a demand by another. ’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the trial court [is] not required to recite in detail the evidence considered in determining what division of the property would be equitable, it [is] required to make findings sufficient to address the statutory factors and support the division ordered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he party seeking an unequal division bears the burden of showing, by a preponderance of evidence, that an equal division would not be equitable.”
3 later decisions 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.