Vincent v. Le Doux’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1982
13 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 Maynard v. Hill · Hurry v. Hurry · Irwin v. Irwin · Hurry v. Hurry · Cooke v. Cooke
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * when married persons have been living separate and apart for a period of two years or more, either party to the marriage contract may sue, in the Courts of his or her residence within this State, provided such residence shall have been continuous for the period of two years, for an absolute divorce, which shall be granted on proof of the continuous living separate and apart of the spouses, during said period of two years or more.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ridell v. Hyver“prejudicial to the interests of society and of the parties themselves that married persons who live separate and apart should be held in their bonds and denied the right to choose other mates....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.