Mogensky v. Mogensky’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The insistence is that appellee’s period of service in the army should not be taken into account in determining whether the separation had continued for three years when the suit was filed. But the separation had occurred before appellee’s induction into the army, and the running of -the statute was not suspended by his military service, and had continued more than three years when he filed suit for divorce. There was, therefore, a separation for more than three years. Schouler’s Divorce* Manual, page 203; Colston v. Colston, 297 Ky. 250 , 179 S. W. 2d 893 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mohr v. Mohr

2. ““Where either husband or wife has lived separate and apart from the other for three (3) consecutive years, without cohabitation, the court shall grant an absolute decree of divorce at the suit of either party, whether such' separation was the voluntary act or by the mutual consent of the parties, and the question of who is the injured party shall be considered only in the settlement of the property rights of the parties and the question of alimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mohr v. Mohr