Duncan v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1981
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 335 So. 2d 5 - Shannon v. State · 348 So. 2d 592 - Patterson v. Patterson · 346 So. 2d 591 - Johnson v. Johnson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant personal contribution ... sufficient to establish a special equity in husband in the Alabama house, at least to the extent of granting him the exclusive use of that house while wife has exclusive use of the parties' marital home.”
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.