White v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. ““Appellant earnestly insists that she is the injured party in this case, and should be awarded a division of the property . . . The evidence was conflicting, but we think the preponderance sustains the holding of the Chancellor. It is also noticeable that though Mrs. White testified she was forced to leave the home in December, 1953, because of indignities suffered at the hands of the appellee, no suit was filed for two and one-half years, and the matter was not heard until the parties had been separated for more than three years and the complaint amended to that effect. At any rate, considering that the witnesses were before the court, where the Chancellor had the opportunity to observe their demeanor and attitude from the witness stand, we are unable to say that the court’s holding was against the preponderance of the testimony, and without so finding, Mrs. White cannot prevail.””

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