People v. Steere’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whatever public policy is evidenced by the Michigan law, it is directed rather to the controlling of the party guilty of marital wrongs than, generally, at parties to a divorce proceeding. There appears to be no .rule of state comity which requires the courts of this state to recognize and to enforce here the prohibition of the Illinois law, and no such rule is> suggested.””

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