Cousins v. Cousins’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2015
14 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 Stokes v. Stokes · Brown v. Farkas · Paul v. Paul · 32 Ohio App. 2d 75 - Herder v. Herder
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the usual rules for the construction of contracts, the cardinal rule being to ascertain the intention of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.