Elizabeth B. Argent v. Samuel E. Argent’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2015
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 United States ex rel. Chapman v. Federal Power Commission · Lopez v. Lopez · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Smith v. Smith · Hoppe v. Hoppe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the entry of a final decree of annulment or absolute divorce, in the absence of a valid antenuptial or post-nuptial agreement in relation thereto, all property rights of the parties in joint tenancy or tenancy by the entirety shall stand dissolved * * *. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alves v. Alves“difference between 'award and apportion’ and 'determine and adjudicate' is simply the difference between directly and indirectly affecting title to land,” id. at 48, 396 F.2d at 697 . An amendment to section 16-910 changed the terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Davis
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.