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Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
4
states following
August 2001
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Hoffmann v. Hoffmann (1984), 87 Ill. App. 3d 651 - In Re Marriage of Simmons (1980)

31 state decisions

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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 Conrad v. Bowers · Marriage of Cain v. Cain · Stark v. Stark · Claunch v. Claunch

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] division which leaves the parties tenants in common of personal property susceptible to division in kind should be avoided in the interest of preventing the unnecessary extension of disputes and ill feeling. Although resort to such device with respect to real estate property should not be absolutely precluded, again a tenancy in common solution should be reserved for the unusual situation where the economics involved call for such solution.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Reeves v. Reeves · Murray v. Murray
  2. “[T]he court shall set apart to each spouse his property and shall divide the marital property in such proportions as the court deems just after considering all relevant factors ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Murray v. Murray
  3. “property acquired prior to the marriage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jdp v. Fjh

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.