Crabtree v. Crabtree’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1964
17 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 May v. May · Ford v. Ford · Crews v. Crews · Beyer v. Beyer
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a single act of physical violence does not always justify a divorce under the statute, still it may be of such violence and danger to the life of the complaining party as to constitute a ground of divorce. Much depends upon the character of the violence and upon the presence or absence of provocation. A serious blow given intentionally and without any provocation will generally give rise to the inference that it is likely to be repeated, and thus create a reasonable apprehension of danger for the future. The evidence must show that the life of the complaining party was endangered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapple v. Chapple
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.