Roberts v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 1994
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hudgins v. Hudgins · Alls v. Alls · Rosenberg v. Rosenberg · Plattner v. Plattner · Craig v. Craig
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an excessively rigid application of the . . . rule would permit a wife, who wished to desert her husband, but also wished to claim spousal support from him, to institute a frivolous suit against him, based on charges for which she has no evidence, and thereafter to desert him. She could later amend her suit to claim a divorce on the ground of one year’s separation, but he would be barred from asserting her desertion as a defense to her claim for spousal support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprott v. Sprott
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.