Miguez v. Miguez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And on the whole we therefore conclude, as did the district judge, that plaintiff’s demand should be rejected. Where a husband so behaves as to give his wife just ground for believing that he has abandoned her for another woman (as this plaintiff certainly has), he cannot complain that she should voice her indignation at his conduct and give vent to some feeling against him on that account; and her conduct on such occasion, being thus provoked by himself, cannot be assigned by him as ‘excesses, cruel treatment, or outrages * * * of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable,’ and thus furnish grounds for a separation from bed and board under R.C.C. art. 138. Let such a husband first mend his own ways, and when this is done, it will then be time to complain of his wife’s ‘ill treatment’ should she on her part not cease complaining; which of course, she will under such circumstances.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chaisson v. Ogeron