McCoy v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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

1. “In the case before us, we make explicit that which was implicit in Harwell , to wit: Where one of the parties to a marriage refuses to cohabit with the other and testifies that the marriage is irretrievably broken, the fact that the other party maintains hope for a reconciliation will not support a finding under Harwell that there are `prospects for a reconciliation.' Just as it takes two consenting parties to make a contract, it takes two consenting parties to make a reconciliation. Just as one party cannot make a contract, one party cannot make a marriage or a reconciliation thereof. If the General Assembly had intended that the thirteenth ground for divorce be consensual, it would have provided that `The parties agree that the marriage is irretrievably broken.'”

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

2. “We return to what was said in Harwell v. Harwell, supra, 233 Ga. 89 , 91: 'An”

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