Slaughter v. Slaughter’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1986
13 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 MacDonald v. MacDonald · Sumner v. Sumner · Draper v. Medlock · Stewart v. Stewart · Hill v. Cox
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The previous suit between these parties, based on acts of cruel treatment alleged to have occurred before June, 1935, was terminated by judgment dated March 2, 1938. The present suit was filed on October 17, 1939, on the ground of cruel treatment based on acts alleged to have occurred since the termination of the former suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowhan v. Dowhan“The doctrine of res judicata is to be applied only when the cause of action is the same. Worth v. Carmichael , 114 Ga. 699 ( 40 S.E. 797 ); Draper v. Medlock , 122 Ga. 234 ( 50 S.E. 113 , 69 L.R.A. 483 , 2 Ann. Cas. 650); Hill v. Cox , 151 Ga. 599 ( 107 S.E. 850 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Cobb
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.