Baxter v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1947
8 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 Hall v. Hall · 97 N.J. Eq. 14 - Davenport v. Davenport
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That a desertion, in order to be obstinate, must be persisted in against the willingness of the injured party to have it concluded, is declared by all our cases; and, ordinarily, when a husband has, by his conduct toward his wife, contributed in any way to her original desertion, the law requires that he should evidence that willingness by making such advances or concessions to his wife as might be reasonably expected to induce her to return to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holst v. Holst“A wife's desertion, though willful, cannot be adjudged obstinate, unless it has resisted such efforts or concessions on the part of the husband as he ought to have made to bring it to an end under the particular circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holst v. Holst
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.