Pickens v. Pickens’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
December 1974
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Byers v. . Byers · Pruett v. Pruett · Taylor v. . Taylor · Mallard v. Mallard · McLean v. McLean
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.
““If the husband alleges and establishes that he and his wife have lived separate and apart continuously for two years or more next preceding the commencement of the action within the meaning of G.S. 50-6, the only defense recognized by our decisions is that the separation was caused by the act of the husband in wilfully abandoning her.””
1 later decision 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.