Behr v. Behr’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2001
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Ridgely v. Ridgely · Brown v. Scott · Denison v. Denison · Wimbrough v. Wimbrough · Le Brun v. Le Brun ex rel. Randall
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While marriage is a civil contract and not a sacrament, the law regards it with a sanctity which is not attributed to any other kind of contract; on the theory that the public has a direct interest in it as an institution of transcendent importance to social welfare. Fornshill v. Murray, 1 Bland 479 , 18 Am. Dec. 344 ; Denison v. Denison, 35 Md. 361 ; Le Brun v. Le Brun, 55 Md. 496 ; Ridgely v. Ridgely, 79 Md. 298 , 29 A. 597 , 25 L.R.A. 800 ; Twigg v. Twigg, 107 Md. 676 , 69 A. 517 ; Wimbrough v. Wimbrough, 125 Md. 619 , 94 A. 168 . Moreover, in Maryland the marriage contract is required to be solemnized by a religious ceremony (Denison v. Denison, supra), and will not be dissolved or annulled by the courts except for the soundest of reasons and upon the strictest of proof. Le Brun v. Le Brun, supra.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.