239 Mo. App. 655 - Pike v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1992
22 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 Sanders v. State · Hadley v. Bernero · Reed v. Bright · State v. Stanley · State v. Wallace
Most-quoted passages
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“So we are asked by relator to face the anomalous situation of declaring void a judgment or decree of an inferior court entered of record after personal service of summons has been had on the defendant therein, and where the plaintiff, relying upon the presumption of right action and jurisdiction of the trial court, has remarried, with the possibility of issue having been bom of the second marriage. In other words, relator asks this court to brand her former husband and his second wife as open adulterers, and to cast a stigma upon their offspring, if such there be, now or hereafter bom. And this, when by prompt and seasonable action taken by appeal or writ of error, relator might possibly have prevented the remarriage of her former husband and have averted the serious and far-reaching consequences which will necessarily follow the quashing of the divorce proceedings. We think relator has slept upon her rights. She is guilty of laches.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. London v. London
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