Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2024
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Darrough v. Davis · Tatum v. Tatum · Marcum v. Zaring · Wisel v. Terhune · Norton v. Coffield
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The predicate facts in this case constitute affirmative acts which give rise to a legal change in appellee's marital relationship with decedent. In particular, appellee's cohabitation with Gould and her affirmative recognition of her subsequent common law marriage to Gould. We therefore find appellee's prior assertion of legal status and judicial finding and decree from which there was no appeal operates as a bar to her later inconsistent claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BROWN v. ALLEY · BROWN v. ALLEY“Given the facts in this case, appellee is estopped from asserting her continual marital status with the decedent. Appellee had the opportunity for thirteen years to assert her relationship with the decedent, but declined to do so until the decedent's death. She cannot "speak" now after she has been silent for so long.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BROWN v. ALLEY · BROWN v. ALLEY“if you do not speak when you ought to speak, you shall not speak when you want to speak.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BROWN v. ALLEY · BROWN v. ALLEY
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.