Moller v. . Moller’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1970 · most notably District of Columbia v. Clawans (1937), McKeon v. . Van Slyck (1918)
45 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 Banta v. Banta · 4 Edw. Ch. 566 - Turney v. Turney
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘But the illicit amours of faithless husbands and wives are usually clandestine, and their wicked paths are hidden from public observation; and hence courts must not be duped, and they must take such evidence as the nature of the case permits, circumstantial, direct, or positive, and bringing to bear upon it the experience and observations of life, and thus, weighing it with prudence and care, give effect to its just preponderance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNeir v. McNeir
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.