Howell v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . There appears to be no statute requiring the respondent to be a bona fide resident of the State for the Complainant to maintain against him a suit of this character. The statute does require that the complainant must have resided two years in the State of Florida before the filing of a bill for divorce. Section 3189 R. G. S., 4981 C. G. L. But, Section 3197 R. G. S., 4989 C. G. L., provides: “ ‘Alimony unconnected with casues of divorce.— If any husband having ability to maintain or contribute to the maintenance of his wife or minor children shall fail to do so, the wife, living with him or living apart from him through his fault may obtain such maintenance or contribution upon bill filed and suit prosecuted as in other chancery causes; and the court shall make such orders as may be' necessary to secure to her such maintenance or contribution. “As there is no definite period of residence required either for the complainant or the defendant as a prerequisite to the filing and maintaining of a suit of this character we think that the question as to whether or not the respondent was a bona fide resident of the State of Florida is immaterial, since service of process was had upon him in this State.””

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