Lowe v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1975
10 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 Hilbert v. Hilbert · Reynolds v. Cobb · 232 Mo. App. 825 - Hess v. Hess · Bliss v. Bliss · 225 Mo. App. 725 - England v. England
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant also contends that most of plaintiff’s complaints were based on defendant’s conduct before they moved away from Brookfield in April 1947, and that by living with him in Gallatin from April to November 1947, she condoned such conduct. However, the record also shows that many of plaintiff’s complaints refer to defendant’s conduct when they lived in Gallatin. Plaintiff’s action is based on a series of wrongs rather than a single act such as adultery. In such a case, mere cohabitation during the period in which the wrongs were committed cannot be considered as condonation, in the sense in which it would be after an act of adultery; especially when, as in this case, the wife is the complaining party and the welfare of a child is involved. Scott v. Scott [239] Mo.App. [953], 192 S.W.2d 668, 667 , and cases cited; Bliss v. Bliss, 161 Mo.App. 70, 75 , 142 S.W. 1081, 1082 ; 17 Am.Jur., sec. 210, p. 257; 14 A.L.R. 933 ; Hilbert v. Hilbert, 168 Md. 364 , 177 A. 914 , 98 A.L.R. 1353 . ‘The patient endurance of ill-treatment is not only no bar to the wife’s complaint, but creates no presumption against its truth.’ Guthrie v. Guthrie, 26 Mo.App. 566, 574 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mickler v. Mickler
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.