Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The law does not require anything whatever from the hands of parents-in-law except that they do not meddle with the domestic felicity and affections of their son and his wife. The parents may hold aloof, decline to recognize the wife, show no interest in her or her children, or cut off their son without a penny for marrying without their approval. ... To support an action against parents-in-law, for alienating their son’s affections for his wife, a much stronger and clearer case is required to be established than against a stranger.” (pp. 380, 381.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wohlfort v. Wohlfort