Otis v. Bahan’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1987 · most notably Walsh v. Walsh (1949), Williams v. Williams (1949)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Davis v. Watts
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The separation intended by the statute is a separation by which the marital association is severed. It means the living asunder of the husband and wife. It is a voluntary act, and the separation must be with the intent of the married persons to live apart because of their mutual purpose to do so, or because one of the parties with or without the acquiescence of the other intends to discontinue the marital relationship. "To constitute the voluntary separation required by the statute, it must appear that the separation upon the part of at least one of the parties was voluntary in its inception and was continuous throughout the statutory period. * * *" (Emphasis added.) 209 La. at 1088 , 26 So.2d at 148 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sinha v. Sinha · Gardner v. Gardner“When spouses have been living separate and apart continuously for a period of two years or more either spouse may sue for and obtain a judgment of absolute divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Miller““When the statutory period is shown the court has no discretion but must grant the divorce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jolliffe v. Jolliffe
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.