Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right to a divorce is wholly statutory and the legislature may make any grounds it sees fit a cause for divorce. Rozboril v. Rozboril, 60 Ariz. 247 , 135 P.2d 221 . The legislature has by A.R.S. § 25-312, provided ten grounds for divorce. It has not provided that the divorce may be granted where one of the statutory grounds has not been established or at the discretion of a superior court judge because he might think the parties would be better off as single persons. We said, in Smith v. Smith, 61 Ariz. 373 , 149 P.2d 683 : “ ‘We observe that both parties ask to be given their freedom from the other. That may not be done except upon a ground provided by the statute.’ “The trial court was wholly without jurisdiction under the circumstances of this case to award a divorce and its judgment is void * * 101 Ariz. 40 at 41 ; 415 P.2d 568 at 569 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Acheson v. Acheson