Nash v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably 19 Va. App. 77 - Gottlieb v. Gottlieb (1994), 3 Va. App. 484 - Bacon v. Bacon (1986)
25 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 Ashby v. Dumouchelle · Hoffecker v. Hoffecker · Klingstein v. Eagle · Walker v. Walker · Miller v. Miller
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Desertion is a breach of matrimonial duty and is composed first of the breaking off of the matrimonial cohabitation and, secondly, an intent to desert in the mind of the offender. Both must combine to make the desertion complete.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On the testimony in deposition form, the decree is presumed to be correct and should not be disturbed for lack of proof if the controlling factual conclusions reached are sustained by a fair preponderance of the evidence.”
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.