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← 146 LA 584 - Lepenser v. Griffin

Lepenser v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

1919

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
3
states following
December 1974
most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably Herron v. Passailaigue (1926), Walsh v. Walsh (1949)

40 state decisions

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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 Pennoyer v. Neff · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Maynard v. Hill · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Frederick Bell v. Mary G Bell

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

  1. ““The wife is bound to live with her husband and to follow him wherever he chooses to reside; the husband is obliged to receive her and to furnish ■her, with whatever is required for the ..convenience of life, in proportion to his means and condition.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Land v. Land · Juneau v. Juneau
  2. ““That when married persons have been living separate and apart for a period of seven years or more, either party to the marriage contract may sue, in the courts of the State of his or her residence, provided such residence shall have been continuous for the period of seven 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 seven years or more.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 203 So. 2d 409 - Hinchey v. Hinchey

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.