Joy v. Joy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Gallo v. Gallo (1981), Yontef v. Yontef (1981)
47 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 Maynard v. Hill · Monroe v. Monroe · Kellems v. Brown · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Davis v. Edwards
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite the defendant's claims to the contrary, the evidence amply supports the trial court's factual finding of irretrievable breakdown. We decline. . . to circumscribe this delicate process of fact-finding by imposing the constraint of guidelines on an inquiry that is necessarily individualized and particularized. `Since it is the marriage as a whole which is at issue, any evidence which bears upon the viability of the marriage is admissible, whether it be classified as objective or subjective.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At least since Maynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190 , 210-14 , 8 S.Ct. 723 , 31 L.Ed. 654 (1888), it has been clear that the legislature has plenary power to determine the circumstances under which a marital relationship is created and terminated. Morgan v. Morgan, 103 Conn. 189 , 195 , 130 A. 254 (1925); Starr v. Pease, 8 Conn. 541 , 54-647 (1831).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“". . . a marital relationship may terminate in fact without regard to the fault of either marital partner . . ."”
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.