Harrison v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2021
22 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 Collier v. Collier · Scheinin v. Scheinin · Eberwein v. Eberwein · Hastings v. Hastings · Porter v. Porter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has repeatedly stated that the law of Maryland does not countenance the separation of husband and wife, except for grave and weighty causes. And it is well settled that, ordinarily, a single act of violence does not constitute cruelty of treatment within the meaning of the law as a cause for a divorce a mensa. Porter v. Porter, 168 Md. 296 , 177 A. 464 ; Hastings v. Hastings, 147 Md. 177, 181 , 127 A. 743 ; Eberwein v. Eberwein, 193 Md. 95, 101 , 65 A. 2d 792 ; Elzey v. Elzey, 193 Md. 13, 19 , 65 A. 2d 563 . In order to constitute cruelty of treatment, a single act of violence must indicate an intention to do serious bodily harm, or be of such a nature as to threaten serious danger in the future. Hastings v. Hastings, 147 Md. 177, 181 , 127 A. 743 ; Scheinin v. Scheinin, 200 Md. 282, 289 , 89 A. 2d 609 .” Id. at 426 , 164 A. 2d at 903 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Murphy
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.