Fall v. Fall’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin (1909), Taylor v. Taylor (1923)
31 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Frederick Bell v. Mary G Bell · Annie Andrews v. Kate H Andrews · Ellenwood v. Marietta Chair Co. · Dull v. Blackman · August Streitwolf v. Elizabeth Streitwolf
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the power, in its discretion, to make a division of the separate property of the wife or husband,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“their property, and a complete showing must be made,”
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.