Savin v. Savin’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Hayes v. Hayes (1954), Moosa v. Abdalla (1965)
42 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 Coston v. Coston · McCartan v. Filkins · Guidry v. Allemand · Clark v. Clark · Savin v. Savin
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Plaintiff has amply succeeded in proving that the occasions were numerous when defendant and Thomas had the opportunity of committing adultery. But for us to declare that they did, we must draw upon our imagination, and rule that whenever a man and a woman have the opportunity . . ., they do commit adultery. Such an observation is far from being in harmony with present day social standards." 51 So.2d 45 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * on the trial of the case, when the doctor was presented as a witness by the plaintiff, defendant refused to waive her legal right not to-have the doctor disclose the nature of her visit and the result of his examination, if he made one.” 51 So.2d at 44 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moosa v. Abdalla
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.