Simon v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Franklin v. Franklin (1955), Marriage of V. M. v. L. M. (1975)
51 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 Bostwick v. Allen · Hinkle v. Lovelace · Bean v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Carr v. Carr · Chapman v. Chapman
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must be shown that he was guilty of a continuous course of conduct connoting settled hate and a manifestation of alienation and estrangement, and proof of mere occasional acts or words will not suffice. Hoffman v. Hoffman, Mo.App., 224 S.W.2d 554 ". Our Supreme Court in Simon v. Simon, Mo., 248 S.W.2d 560 , announced the same rule on page 563 of its opinion and with this language: "An `innocent' party is not required to conclusively prove freedom from all fault, or such exemplary conduct as excludes any misconduct or all unwise or uncalled-for acts. He or she need show only that, under all the circumstances of a particular case, he or she has not been guilty of conduct constituting a ground or grounds for divorce under RSMo 452.010, V.A.M.S. Cody v. Cody, [Mo.App.] supra, 233 S.W.2d [777] 782(6,7); Politte v. Politte, Mo.App., 230 S.W.2d 142, 148 (4). Plaintiff sustained her burden of proof in the instant case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paxton v. Paxton
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.