Lindbloom v. Lindbloom’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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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.

1. ““In this court counsel for appellant present three questions for our determination. They read: “ ‘1. Was it error to grant the appellee a decree of divorce from his wife on the ground of gross neglect of duty when the evidence disclosed that appellant had been hospitalized for mental illness in the fall of 1951; in the winter of 1952-1953, and in July of 1953, and when the acts complained of took place between her hospitalizations?’ “With respect to the first question presented we think the answer should be in the affirmative. When parties are married they take each other for better or worse. If the wife should become ill of tuberculosis, cancer, or any other disease, and be unable to perform her household duties as well as she ordinarily would perform them, we would not be willing to say that the husband was entitled to a divorce because of that situation. “While in this case plaintiff was never adjudged insane, we think the rule stated in the authority last quoted is applicable. What she had was an illness which affected the ‘emotions and the moods’ for which she was treated as necessity therefor arose.” (pp. 296, 297.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crosby v. Crosby