Rieden v. Rieden’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence tends clearly to show that the defendant is a woman of violent passion, and that she was guilty of many acts of personal violence and neglect of wifely duty in her conduct toward the plaintiff. There would be no profit in here setting forth that testimony. It is sufficient to say that it shows such a condition of ill-will, if not hatred, between the parties that there is no hope of reconciliation ; and we agree with the conclusion reached by the circuit judge, that a decree of divorce should be granted in the case. As this court said in Utley v. Utley, 155 Mich, at page 259: ‘We are impressed that the parties should be relieved entirely of the relations entered upon with their marriage.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Van Kemseke v. Van Kemseke