Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Swink v. Fingado (1993), Berry v. Meadows (1986)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Estate of Fletcher v. Jackson · Schuermann v. Schuermann · Lucas v. Lucas · Burlingham v. Burlingham · Trimble v. St. Joseph's Hospital
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is economic disparity between two adverse parties in a domestic relations case, such that one party may be inhibited from preparing or presenting a claim, then the trial and appellate courts should be liberal in exercising their discretion to award attorney’s fees to discourage any potential judicial oppression.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bustos v. Bustos · Bilbao v. Bilbao“Transmutation is a general term used to describe arrangements between spouses to convert property from separate property to community property and vice versa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gabriele v. Gabriele
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.