13 Ohio App. 2d 212 - Belk v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * What did she do? The record is replete with clear and convincing evidence that she perpetrated a terrible deception; it is undisputed by this woman that before and at the time of the marriage she never intended to be a wife; that she told him immediately after the marriage that it would never ‘work out’; that she couldn’t and wouldn’t remain married to him. The record is indisputable that this woman married this gullible sailor for the sole purpose of legitimatizing her bastard child which was to be born and to ‘hook’ a sucker for its future support. “* * * The appellant’s obligation to support the child in this case was based on the condition that the wife carry out the obligation on her part to be performed. She elected not to give the marriage a chance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Ohio App. 2d 244 - Burse v. Burse

2. ““# * * It milst he kept in mind that the child in this case was not born in true wedlock. True, it was born while the appellant and appellee were still married, or, to put it another way, the divorce had not as yet been granted. They only lived together four weeks when the wife left her husband without cause, never to return. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 14 Ohio App. 2d 148 - Wilson v. Wilson

3. ““Where a child is neither conceived nor in any true sense born in wedlock, a holding of no conclusive presumption of responsibility for support on the part of the husband does not violate any principle of public policy relative to the marriage relation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Ohio App. 2d 244 - Burse v. Burse