Due v. Due’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Saucier v. Hayes Dairy Products, Inc. (1979), 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims (1978)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 38 Cal. App. 3d 93 - In Re Marriage of Lopez · Messersmith v. Messersmith · 332 So. 2d 834 - TL James & Co., Inc. v. Montgomery · Wampler v. Wampler · 287 So. 2d 497 - Creech v. Capitol MacK, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... an attorney's interest in pending contingent fee contracts constitutes a patrimonial asset which, if the contract is acquired during the marriage, forms part of the community insofar as its value is based upon the attorney's services performed during the marriage." Due, supra, at 165, 166 , citing former La.C.C. art. 2402.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“creates in the husband a patrimonial asset, i.e., (in ordinary language) `property,' . . . and which (to the extent that his labor and industry contribute during the marriage . . .) is an asset of the community,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the civil law concept of patrimony includes the total mass of existing or potential rights and liabilities attached to a person for the satisfaction of his economic needs.”
2 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.