Reddick v. Reddick’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1977
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 181 Pa. Super. 414 - Rankin v. Rankin · Wasson v. Wasson · 173 Pa. Super. 60 - Coon v. Coon · 185 Pa. Super. 219 - Bruno v. Bruno · 192 Pa. Super. 166 - Schware v. Schware
Most-quoted passages
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“To summarize, we have not been persuaded that the cumulative effect of all the incidents of this long-continued union exhibits settled hate and estrangement on the husband's part, or demonstrates a course of conduct which made the wife's life burdensome and her condition intolerable. We agree with Judge BROWN that appellant `has not made out a case to establish legal cause for this divorce'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As was the hearing judge, we are more inclined to credit the testimony of the husband and his six witnesses, and fail to perceive sufficient basis for the wife's decision, March 5, 1959, to leave the common home”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that she was `a wonderful wife', and that `she always represented high moral and spiritual value'”
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.