Peed v. Peed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is too well settled to require citation of authority that sallies of passion, rudeness, and even occasional acts of physical violence, do not constitute legal cruelty when not carried to dangerous extremes. Since the Chancellor’s findings are supported by the evidence, we cannot say he was clearly wrong either on the point of desertion or the point of cruelty.””

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