Barr v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is settled law in Pennsylvania that conduct, no matter how severe, arising from mental ill- health is unintentional and therefore lacks the spirit of hate, estrangement and malevolence that is the heart of the charge of indignities, [citations omitted.] The court below recognized this principle but found it inapplicable because, in the court’s view, ‘nothing in this record would justify this Court in setting aside the action of the Master on the grounds that the conduct complained of was caused by [the wife’s] mental condition.’ “We cannot share this view of the record. Our conclusion might be different if the master had discussed the evidence of the wife’s mental illness and had found, for reasons explained in her report, that the wife’s illness was not the source of her objectionable conduct. The difficulty is that the master never discussed the evidence of the wife’s mental condition at all. If one were to confine oneself to the master’s report, one would never suspect there has been such evidence.””

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