Burrell v. Burrell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Wanberg v. Wanberg (1983), Kowalski v. Kowalski (1991)
51 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 Merrill v. Merrill · Houger v. Houger · Rhodes v. Rhodes · Vanover v. Vanover · Crume v. Crume
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a judgment in an action for divorce . the court may provide (3) for the recovery by one party from the other of an amount of money for maintenance, in gross or in installments, as may be just and necessary without regard to which of the parties is in fault; (6) for the division between the parties of their property, whether joint or separate, acquired only during coverture, in the manner as may be just, and without regard to which of the parties is in fault”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) During the pendency of the [divorce] action, the court may provide by order (1) that one spouse pay an amount of money as may be necessary to enable the other spouse to prosecute or defend the action”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bussell v. Bussell · Hpa v. Sca“is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hpa v. Sca · Siggelkow v. Siggelkow
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.