Coston v. Coston’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Hayes v. Hayes (1954), Savin v. Savin (1951)
54 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 McCartan v. Filkins · Shipp v. Shipp · Jenkins v. Maier · Smith v. Smith · Higgins v. Dobard
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Adultery may be established by indirect or circumstantial evidence, as well as by direct evidence. In the nature of things, the offense can seldom be established by direct or positive evidence, and a prima facie case may be made out by showing facts or circumstances that lead fairly and necessarily to the conclusion that adultery has been committed as alleged in the petition."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poole v. Poole
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.