Bell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Twyman v. Twyman (1993), Stafford v. Stafford (1987)
117 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 Hedtke v. Hedtke · In Re the Marriage of McCurdy · Bell v. Bell
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a decree of divorce or annulment the court shall order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“That regardless of the legal status of such corporations and the nature of the property acquired by such corporations during the marriage of the parties, the Court finds that considering the circumstances of the parties all of the stock or other interest in such corporations should be and is set aside to Norman L. Bell.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We interpret the finding of fact to be “that regardless of the legal status of such corporations and the nature of the property acquired by such corporations during the marriage of the parties,” whether separate or community property “the Court finds that considering the circumstances of the parties all of the stock or other interest in such corporations should be and is set aside to Norman L. Bell.” In other words, the court in the exercise of its discretion awarded the corporations to the husband, Norman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Wallace
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.