Cockerham v. Cockerham’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Vallone v. Vallone (1982), McKnight v. McKnight (1976)
5 federal appellate · 153 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 · Hailey v. Hailey · Cooper v. Texas Gulf Industries, Inc. · Butler v. Hanson · Tarver v. Tarver
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) a spouse's separate property is not subject to the liabilities of the other spouse unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Instruction for jury question three]: You are instructed that in determining if a debt is a joint obligation of the husband and wife, it is necessary to examine the totality of the circumstances in which the debt arose, including whether or not the noncontracting spouse’s conduct was consistent with an implied assent to the establishment of the debt. Jury Question No. 3: Was the debt now in question a joint obligation of Richard and Elissa Carr?”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Though the trial court has wide discretion in dividing the property of the spouses as it feels just and in disregarding advisory answers of the jury, it may not ignore the jury’s answers which extend to issues of fact from which the status of property is determined . . . The action of the trial court in disregarding the jury’s answer regarding the status of the property was error . . . ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.