Fields v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Dardick v. Dardick (1984), In Re Marriage of Dusing (1983)
52 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 Corder v. Corder · Marriage of Cain v. Cain · City of Ferguson v. Nelson · Anspach v. Anspach · Aronberg v. Aronberg
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where real estate is affected by a dissolution decree either by setting apart non-marital property and thereby extinguishing one spouse’s claim through the marriage relationship or by division of marital property as equivalent to conveyance, full legal descriptions must be included in the judgment. Such is necessary to the end that Section 452.330-5 ... requiring filing of the decree in the office of recorder of deeds be effective in dispelling future questions as to land titles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lance v. Lance“By the specific direction of Section 452.-330-1(2), RSMo Supp.1973, the court is obligated not only to allocate assets but also to evaluate the property set apart to each spouse. Where the decree does not include both elements, no final judgment results and the appellate court is without jurisdiction. Without the benefit of the trial court’s finding as to asset values, meaningful appellate review of property divison is precluded. (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartley v. Hartley
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.