Malone v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2017
21 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 Burrell v. Burrell · Messina v. Messina
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopted the view that courts should be encouraged to provide for the financial needs of spouses by a property disposition, rather than by alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Voyles v. Voyles“the court has broad discretion [to divide property] which will be interfered with on appeal only in cases of clear injustice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krize v. Krize
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.