Ballard v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1980
9 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 Hicks v. Hicks · Ralston v. Ralston · Life & Casualty Insurance Co. of Tennessee v. Young · Jones v. Jones · Boggs v. Boggs
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The amount of alimony to be awarded and the method of payment are matters within the discretion of the Chancellor. Hicks v. Hicks, Ky., 290 S.W.2d 483 ; Boggs v. Boggs, Ky., 330 S.W.2d 118 ; Ralston v. Ralston, Ky., 396 S.W.2d 775 . The exercise of such discretion will not be set aside unless it is shown to be clearly erroneous. Somerville v. Somerville, Ky., 339 S.W.2d 940 ; Peavy v. Peavy, Ky., 351 S.W.2d 869 . An abuse of discretion has not been shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Long
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.