Boyer v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Steinke v. Steinke (1975), 241 Pa. Super. 53 - Schrock v. Schrock (1976)
41 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 Nixon v. Nixon · Esenwein v. Esenwein · McKrell v. McKrell · Nacrelli v. Nacrelli · 157 Pa. Super. 582 - Smith v. Smith
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The offense is complete when a continued and persistent course of conduct demonstrates that the love and affection upon which the matrimonial status rests has been permanently replaced by hatred and estrangement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffie v. Griffie
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.