Azar v. Azar’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1986
12 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 Houghton v. Hall · Azar v. Azar · Reymond v. Louisiana Trust & Savings Bank · Mallouf v. Fontenot · Hodges v. Hodges
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Separation grounded on abandonment by one of the parties can be admitted only in the case when he or she has withdrawn himself or herself from the common dwelling, without a lawful cause, has constantly refused to return to live with the other, and when such refusal is made to appear in the manner hereafter directed; provided, however, that separation grounded on abandonment may be the object of a reconventional demand in any suit for separation from bed and board." (As amended Acts 1958, No. 154 § 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The state of living together as man and wife is largely a matter of intention and not wholly determined on constant physical presence of the parties together in the same house."”
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.