Hava v. Chavigny’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Matter of Estate of Adamee (1976), Succession of Le Jeune (1952)
34 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 Jacobs v. Tobelman · Millet v. Millet
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ‘living separate and apart’ referred to in Act 260 is the life which is manifest in the community in which the spouses live. The evidence thereof is not to be sought for behind the closed doors of the matrimonial domicile.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quinn v. Brown
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.