Nebbitt v. Nebbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2011
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Latta v. Robinson Erection Co. · Piper v. . Hoard · Coffey v. Coffey · Berry v. Harmon · Ray v. Ray
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether the petitioned-for divorce is granted or denied does not affect the right to sue for conversion.” Id. Nebbitt involved the husband’s non-marital property, while this case concerns alleged misappropriation of marital property. As we have explained in the text, a dissolution court has wide-ranging authority to address issues concerning the parties’ marital property. By contrast,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dahn v. Dahn
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.