Coon v. Coon’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1944
14 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 Pullman's Co v. Central Transp Co · Winans v. . Winans · Burlage v. Burlage · Milliman v. Milliman · Utley v. Utley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the general rule to be deduced from the authorities is that in divorce proceedings the complainant party may dismiss his suit at any time before interlocutory or final decree, in the absence of any legal interest on the part of the defendant or of the State to the contrary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Certainly it is not for the interest of the State that the guilty husband, who has violated his. marriage covenant, should obtain by indirection a divorce from his innocent wife, who is willing to condone his offense and renew marital relations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Lacey““In our opinion, the defendant should have been permitted to dismiss her cross-bill and a decree entered dismissing complainant’s bill of complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leach v. Dolese
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.