74 Ark. App. 30 - Dial v. Dial’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2025
24 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 Day v. Day · Wilson v. Wilson · Shepherd v. State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance · Box v. Box · 4 Ark. App. 294 - Lytle v. Citizens Bank of Batesville
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) At the time a divorce decree is entered: (1)(A) All marital property shall be distributed one-half (V2) to each party unless the court finds such a division to be inequitable. In that event the court shall make some other division that the court deems equitable taking into consideration: . (1) The length of the marriage; (ii) Age, health, and station in life of the parties; (Hi) Occupation of the parties; (iv) Amount and sources of income; (v) Vocational skills; (vi) Employability; (vii)Estate, liabilities, and needs of each party and opportunity of each for further acquisition of capital assets and income; ' (viii) Contribution of each party in acquisition, preservation, or appreciation of marital property, including services as a homemaker; and (ix) The federal income tax consequences of the court’s division of property. [[Image here]] (2) All other properly shall be returned, to the party who owned it prior to the marriage unless the court shall make some other division that the court deems equitable taking into consideration those factors enumerated in subdivision (a)(1) of this section, in which event the court must state in writing its basis and reasons for not returning the property to the party who owned it at the time of the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marks v. Marks
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.