Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2002
16 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Hedtke v. Hedtke · Carle v. Carle · Williams v. Williams · Duncan v. Duncan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the nature of the property; (2) the relative earning capacities and business experience of the spouses; (3) educational background of the parties; (4) size of separate estates; (5) the age, health and physical condition of the parties; (6) fault in breaking up the marriage; (7) the benefits the innocent spouse would have received had the marriage continued; and (8) probable need for future support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Patt v. Patt · Tarin v. Tarin“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....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patt v. Patt
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.