Carmichael v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ # # divorce is a remedy for the innocent and injured party only, and that it will not be allowed where it appears that the complainant, although otherwise entitled to a decree, has been guilty of acts that constitute a cause for divorce, is a principle taught by the decisions in this jurisdiction, as well as by court decisions elsewhere; and, in this circumstance, such misconduct on the part of the plaintiff may be set up by defendant in recrimination.””

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

2. ““It is a bar to any suit to dissolve' a valid marriage, or to separate the parties from bed and board, that either before or after the complaint of delictum, transpired the plaintiff himself did what, whether of the like offending or any other, was cause for a divorce of either sort.””

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

3. ““If collusion existed between the parties, the defendant does not come into court with clean hands.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickerson v. Murfield