Bishop v. Eckhard’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2009
4 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 Young v. Young · Priedeman v. Jamison · Ray v. Ray · LoPiccolo v. LoPiccolo · Heil v. Rogers
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellant's argument that an insurance policy on the life of one of the parties' involved in a dissolution action constitutes marital property is misplaced. To determine the parties assets in a dissolution action a whole life insurance policy becomes marital property because of its cash value. . . . It is not to be considered on the basis of the potential for future proceeds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.