Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1985
9 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 Spurlock v. Spurlock · Buck v. Buck
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The annotator’s note to the case of Renner v. Renner, 127 A.L.R. 674 , states the rule to be that a divorce will not be granted for causes arising after the action was brought. Among other cases cited to support this statement is our own Spurlock v. Spurlock, 80 Ark. 37 , 96 S.W. 753 . In this Spurlock case it was said that the cause of divorce must exist before the commencement of the suit, although it was held competent to prove the relation between the defendant and the co-respondent after the suit had been filed not as a ground for divorce, but as corroborating testimony as to the improper relations before the suit was filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scherer v. Scherer
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.