Tarr v. Tarr’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Petachenko v. Petachenko (1986), 9 Va. App. 288 - Emrich v. Emrich (1989)
40 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 Chapin v. Ford · Sampson v. Sampson · Turner v. Williams · McClure v. McClure · Phinizy v. Phinizy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Effect of cohabitation after knowledge of adultery; lapse of five y ears. — When the suit is for divorce for adultery, the divorce shall not be granted, if it appear that the parties voluntarily cohabited after the knowledge of the fact of adultery, or that it occurred more than five years before the institution of the suit, or that it was committed by the procurement or connivance of the plaintiff.” (Italics supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Moran · McKee v. McKee““The literal or derivative meaning of the word ‘cohabit’ Is to live together while its popular and often legal signification is to copulate. The latter interpretation was, in our opinion, intended by the Legislature.””
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.