Harwell v. Harwell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2007
19 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 Phinizy v. Phinizy · Slaughter v. Slaughter · Rowell v. Rowell · Cohen v. Cohen · Newton v. Newton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An `irretrievably broken' marriage is one where either or both parties are unable or refuse to cohabit and there are no prospects for a reconciliation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Proof of fault is not required to show a marriage is `irretrievably broken.' The parties do not specifically complain of the other's conduct. They merely state that their marital differences are insoluble and request a change of status. The only question is whether there are prospects for a reconciliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson“A finding that a marriage is not 'irretrievably broken’ is a finding that a reconciliation may be possible.” As stated in Harwell :”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. McCoy
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.