Corder v. Corder’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978), Dardick v. Dardick (1984)
85 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 Maynard v. Hill · Wisconsin v. Illinois · Rothman v. Rothman · Bellerive Investment Co. v. Kansas City · Flarsheim v. Twenty Five Thirty Two Broadway Corp.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The contribution of each spouse to the acquisition of the marital property, including the contribution of a spouse as homemaker; (2) The value of the property set apart to each spouse; (3) The economic circumstances of each spouse at the time the division of property is to become effective, including the desirability of awarding the family home or the right to live therein for reasonable periods to the spouse having custody of any children; and (4) The conduct of the parties during the marriage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * seeks to redress the patent inequity and rancorous aftermath heretofore attached to the division of property accumulated during the course of a marriage which now falls within the definition of ‘marital property’. By the same token, it seeks to effectively minimize the necessity for recourse to further litigation to completely sever all relations between the parties. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Turpin v. Turpin · Block v. Block“[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.... [As to real estate,] a tenancy in common solution should be reserved for the unusual situation where the economics involved call for such a solution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Glosier v. Glosier · Wef v. Cjf
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.