Cronin v. Cronin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. ““The nature of the misconduct of the wife is for consideration as an aid to judicial discretion in deciding whether the wife should have alimony on, divorce, and, if so, the amount thereof. Other considerations, such as years of living and toiling together in mutual effort to make a home, accumulate something by sacrifice of comforts as well as luxuries; the interruption of this way of life by debilities not the fault of either, as well as all the events of the. years to follow leading to the final severance of the family relation, become a part of the picture to be viewed as a whole in deciding the best thing to be done.””

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

2. ““By the terms of the amendatory act, it was the duty of the trial judge to determine in the first instance whether or not the circumstances • of the case justified decreeing an allowance to the. wife out of the estate of the husband, and the trial judge determined, and so decreed, that the circumstances did justify such an allowance, and, accordingly, proceeded to fix the amount. “In decreeing and fixing the amount of alimony, whatever discretion is given the court ‘is judicial, not arbitrary,’ and is subject to review on appeal. * * * ””

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