Spansenberg v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1964
11 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 Ashton v. Grucker · Birmingham v. O'Neil · Sawyer v. Arnold · Jolly v. Weber · Gahn v. Darby
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For a wife to state to a husband that she has ceased to love him and that she demands her freedom, when said, not in a fit of temper, but as a fixed and deliberate conclusion, necessarily constitutes cruel treatment. Such statement to a husband who- is devoted to his wife is in itself the very refinement of cruelty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrish v. Parrish““When a permanent change in the wife’s affections has taken place, without any fault or misconduct on the part of the husband, he has a lawful cause for leaving the matrimonial domicile, and his doing so cannot be construed as a technical abandonment of his-wife.''’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrish v. Parrish““The very purpose of tbe law in requiring the husband or wife to return to the matrimonial domicile is to afford them an .opportunity to become reconciled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Hampson
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.