Egbert v. Egbert’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 1963
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Brown · Nagel v. Nagel · Meredith v. Meredith · Ellison v. Ellison · Studley v. Studley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon an application for a divorce, where both parties are found guilty of any of the enumerated offenses for which a divorce may be granted, the court should dismiss the bill.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Baker
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.