Ware v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Mehra v. Mehra (1991), Guier v. Guier (1996)
76 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 Murphy v. Carron · Prudential Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Cole · Trunko v. Trunko · Smith v. Smith · Lewis v. Lewis
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Further, we must accept as true the evidence and permissible inferences therefrom favorable to the prevailing party and disregard the contradictory evidence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““If reasonable men can differ about the propriety of the action taken by the trial court, then the trial court did not abuse its discretion.””
1 later decision 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.