Carson v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither misfortune nor incompetence resulting in failure to support affords the wife any grounds for relief under the law. The possibility of such a result was one of the hazards complainant undertook when she assumed the burdens incident to the contract.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collette v. Collette