Petachenko v. Petachenko’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Schweider v. Schweider (1992), 14 Va. App. 270 - Frey v. Frey (1992)
45 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 Tarr v. Tarr · Breschel v. Breschel · Chandler v. Chandler · Ringgold v. Ringgold · Hoback v. Hoback
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'matrimonial cohabitation ... imports the continuing condition of living together and carrying out the mutual responsibilities of the marital relationship.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luttrell v. Cucco · Kerns v. Kerns“a breach of matrimonial duty - an actual breaking off of the matrimonial cohabitation coupled with an intent to desert in the mind of the deserting party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Purce v. Patterson“A mere denial of sexual intercourse, where other marital duties are performed, does not constitute desertion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Moran
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.