Sowards v. Sowards’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 1987
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coffey v. Coffey · Morgan v. Morgan · Haley v. Haley · Greer v. Greer · Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any event, the chancellor was in a position to observe the demeanor of the parties and the witnesses as they testified, and was in a better position to weigh and evaluate the testimony and therefore in a better position than we are to determine what does or does not constitute such indignities between these particular parties in this particular case as to render the marriage between them intolerable to one of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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