Lefevre v. Lefevre’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1929
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boren v. Billington · Jones v. Jones · Sheffield v. Sheffield · 63 Tex. Civ. App. 168 - Dawson v. Dawson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It cannot be doubted that a series of studied vexations, and deliberate insults and provocations, would, under our statute, be sufficient cause for divorce, without apprehension of personal violence or bodily hurt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNabb v. McNabb
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.