Bishop v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2022
15 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 Carroll v. Lee · Willeke v. Bailey · Beal v. Beal · Oaksmith v. Brusich · Zimin v. Zimin
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.
“contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the disputed property”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Frost v. Spencer · Reed v. Parrish“[I]t was not error to award [a partner] a one-half interest in the disputed property not allocated by the 1996 settlement agreement-i.e., the furniture and appliances in the East Hill Road cabin and the proceeds from the sale of the Mountain View lot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tomal v. Anderson“We treat the court's decision as finding that these cohabiting parties impliedly agreed to the distribution of property accumulated during cohabitation. ... We review [this finding] de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tomal v. Anderson
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.