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162 Pa. Super. 506 - Bock v. Bock’s Empirical Analysis

1947

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
March 1960
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1960

16 state decisions

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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 157 Pa. Super. 582 - Smith v. Smith · 160 Pa. Super. 117 - Monaco v. Monaco · 127 Pa. Super. 143 - Rock v. Philadelphia · 160 Pa. Super. 562 - Clark v. Clark · 160 Pa. Super. 18 - Anthony v. Anthony

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In order to determine whether a particular libellant is an `innocent and injured spouse', the court must not only examine and weigh the evidence relating to the many complex factual situations which make up the total picture of marital conduct, but it must evaluate this evidence with relation to the defenses available to the respondent in connection with the particular grounds for divorce relied upon by the libellant”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “were not connected in any way with the allegations in the libel . . . and did not provoke the indignities of which he complains”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.