Ward v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The wife’s separation by the husband’s compulsion may be caused either by actual physical force against her, or by threats and conduct on his part sufficient to afford her reasonable ground for believing or fearing that the security of her life or person is seriously endangered, unless she seeks safety by leaving him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harrington v. Harrington

2. ““Willful desertion, in the statutory intent and meaning, is the voluntary separation of one of the married persons from the other, or the voluntary refusal to renew a suspended marital relation, without justification either in the consent or wrongful conduct of the other.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Truman v. Truman