Atkinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2025
22 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 Ferguson v. Green · Jones v. Jones · Campbell v. Campbell · 67 Ark. App. 221 - Smith v. Parker · 62 Ark. App. 247 - Adkinson v. Kilgore
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that appellant is an only child and potential heir to a one-million-dollar estate coupled with the fact that he was the beneficiary of the aforementioned trust certainly suggests that he has opportunities for further acquisition of capital assets and income that are unavailable to appellee”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.