Reed v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1953
11 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 Beach v. Beach · Privett v. Privett · Large v. Large · Smith v. Smith · Barker v. Barker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Marriage is a contract, and a relation which, if possible, should endure, and public policy requires that there be no straining of law or facts to end the contract and sever the relation. Time will heal many estrangements, and bring together those whom temporary feeling has alienated. And courts, having ever in view the public good, may often wisely use their discretion to give tim'e and opportunity for reconciliation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Morris““In a divorce case, where the evidence is conflicting and there is sufficient competent evidence to support the findings of the court and the decree based thereon, the same will not be disturbed on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowd v. Dowd
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.