Usen v. Usen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Even a void decree of divorce would necessarily affect the libelee. Undoubtedly it would cause not only confusion and uncertainty as to the status of both parties, but may well cause this plaintiff embarrassment, humiliation and suffering, as alleged, resulting in irreparable injury to her. “A valid decree of divorce necessarily carries with it the information that it has been judicially determined that the libelee has violated her marriage vows, and that, within the scope of the allegations in the libel, she has been found guilty of some wrong against the libelant; but a void decree stamps ‘her name, it may be, with an unmerited disgrace.’ Holmes v. Holmes, supra [ 63 Me. 420 ]. See, also, Greenberg v. Greenberg, supra; and Johnson v. Johnson, supra. “In Forrest v. Forrest, supra [2 Edm. Sel. Cas., N. Y., 180], the court said: ‘It is manifest from the facts as they are spread before me, that the defendant cannot obtain, in his suit in Pennsylvania, a decree which can be binding on his wife here. Would it be right to subject her unnecessarily to the harassing evils of even an invalid decree, or compel her to expend the allowance made to her by her husband, In resisting the granting of such a decree ? ’ “The court, in Jeffe v. Jeffe, supra, says [ 168 Misc. 123 , 4 N. Y. S. 2d 629]: ‘ To deprive the plaintiff of her status by fraudulent resort to a foreign jurisdiction; to impose upon her the burden of defending her rights in any part of the country'which the defendant may se”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kahn v. Kahn