Foote v. Foote’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Matter of Anderson (1974), Courson v. Courson (1957)
60 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 Dougherty v. Dougherty · Dickey v. Dickey · Emerson v. Emerson · Timanus v. Timanus · Polley v. Polley
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to establish the existence of the twelve month voluntary separation ground for divorce a vinculo ... three elements must be shown: (i) an express or implied agreement to separate, accompanied by a mutual intent not to resume the marriage relationship; (ii) voluntarily living separate and apart without cohabitation for twelve months prior to the filing of the bill of complaint; and (in) that the separation is beyond any reasonable hope of reconciliation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In cases where a divorce is decreed, alimony may be awarded.””
1 later decision 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.