Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2017
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 Carpenter v. Carpenter · Sullivan v. Sullivan
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.
“after [which] a husband and wife have toiled on together for upwards of a quarter of a century in accumulating property . . . the ultimate duty of the court is to make a fair and equitable division under all the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In view of the nature of the action and the amount of property involved, it cannot be said that the allowance for attorney fees is unreasonable or excessive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shufeldt v. Hughes
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.