Ames v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Gorman v. Life Insurance Co. of North America (1991), Vinson & Elkins v. Moran (1997)
67 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Mead Corporation v. Be Tilley · Durrill v. Ford Motor Co. · 276 Pa. Super. 232 - Lukus v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · 276 Pa. Super. 220 - Shaw v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“against the great weight and preponderance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“detail the relevant evidence and clearly state why the jury's finding is factually insufficient or is so against the great weight and preponderance as to be manifestly unjust; why it shocks the conscience; or clearly demonstrates bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JJ
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.