Sutherland v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1981
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 Kientz v. Kientz · Rie v. Rie · Arnold v. Arnold · Johnson v. Johnson · Darrow v. Darrow
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.
“The most charitable view of the testimony presented in this record in behalf of appellee is to say that both parties were somewhat in fault, and that both, by failure to exercise that mutual forgiveness which the relationship demanded, aggravated, rather than tended to ameliorate their conjugal state. Had the parties to this unfortunate marriage heeded the admonitions of this court, “A little confessed, a little endured, a little forgiven and all is cured,” as announced in Arnold v. Arnold, supra, this now unhappy couple would be enjoying the associations usually consequent to the marriage status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutton v. Sutton
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.