Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · Armstrong v. Armstrong · 650 So. 2d 1281 - Johnson v. Johnson · 824 So. 2d 623 - Sanderson v. Sanderson · 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each of the parties shall retain all rights in his or her own separate property, as hereinafter defined, whether now owned at the time of the marriage of the parties or acquired thereafter, and each of them shall have the absolute and unrestricted right to dispose of such property during his or her lifetime and upon his or death, free from any claim which may be made by the other by reason of their marriage, and with the same effect as if no marriage had occurred between them, and such separate property shall not be subject to any division between the parties ... as marital property subject to equitable distribution or division under the.laws of Mississippi....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLeod v. McLeod
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.