Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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

1. ““The law does not permit courts to sever the marriage bond, and to break up households, merely because parties, from unruly tempers or mutual wranglings, live unhap pily together. It requires them to submit to the ordinary consequences of human infirmities and of unwise selections, and the misconduct which will form a good' ground for a legal separation must be very serious, and such as amounts to extreme cruelty, entirely ^subverting the family relations by rendering the association intolerable. Our statutes do not confine such cruelty to mere physical violence, which is by no means the worst injury that can be inflicted on persons of refined sensibility; but the grievance,, of whatever kind, must be of the most aggravated nature to justify a divorce. While the proof shows that these parties lived in very unpleasant relations, it is not clear that matters had proceeded to extremity.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Miller · Bailey v. Bailey