Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Grigerik v. Sharpe (1998), Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health (2008)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 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 John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Di Lorenzo v. . Di Lorenzo · Artman v. Artman · Dennis v. Dennis · Cunningham v. . Cunningham
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for the annulment of a marriage on this ground requires of the court hearing it great caution and demands clear proof”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Marriage is that ceremony or process by which the relationship of husband and wife is constituted. The consent of the parties is everywhere deemed an essential condition to the forming of this relation. To this extent it is a contract. But when the relation is constituted then all its incidents, as well as the rights and duties of the parties resulting from the relation, are absolutely fixed by law. Hence, after a marriage is entered into the relation becomes a status, and is no longer one resting merely on contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where parties have entered into a valid marriage, it may be dissolved only where one of the grounds of divorce specified in the statutes is present and only in accordance with the procedure established by the statutes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trotta v. Trotta
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.