Lafko v. Lafko’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Nickerson v. Nickerson (1992), LaFarr v. LaFarr (1974)
48 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 Aucutt v. Aucutt · Leonard v. Willcox · Aucutt v. Aucutt · McKinney v. McKinney Kelley · Loeb v. Loeb
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.
““Condonation is a doctrine of conditional forgiveness. It is the obligation of the offending partner to refrain from further misconduct. In the present case the libellant produced no evidence that he was granted forgiveness by his wife, either actual or by implication through resumption of intimate relations after the final act of cruelty. As for prior misconduct, the innocent partner’s continuing forbearance, in the hope of saving the marriage, should not work a forfeiture of relief if further violations of the covenant persist.” Lafko v. Lafko, supra, citations therein omitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallant v. Gallant“opposing desires of hostile parents ... must yield to the paramount consideration of the children's well-being”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.