Fowler v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2014
15 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on 485 So. 2d 1174 - Lutz v. Lutz · 519 So. 2d 525 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · Kabaci v. Kabaci · 475 So. 2d 575 - Beckwith v. Beckwith · Waid v. Waid
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]roperty divisions are not required to be equal, but must be equitable in light of the evidence, and the determination as to what is equitable rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“disposable military retirement benefits . . . accumulated during the course of the marriage constitute marital property and, therefore, are subject to equitable division as such.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ While it is difficult and somewhat rare to prove adultery by direct means, the charge of adultery in a divorce case may be proven by circumstantial evidence which creates more than a mere, suspicion.’ Billington v. Billington, 531 So.2d 924, 924 (Ala.Civ.App.1988). Proof to support the charge of adultery ‘must be sufficiently strong to lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and just mind to the conclusion of adultery as a necessary inference.’ Boldon v. Boldon, 354 So.2d 275, 276 (Ala.Civ.App.1978).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Morgan
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.