Beaulieu v. Beaulieu’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Neumeier v. Kuehner (1972), Gutierrez v. Collins (1979)
4 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Richards v. United States · Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · 67 Cal. 2d 551 - Reich v. Purcell · Tooker v. Lopez
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we readily observe that Maine’s contacts are quantitative!y and qualitatively greater and her governmental interest is of major significance, while Massachusetts contacts are merely fortuitous in that the accident happened there and her concerns, if any, are minimal. The present action involves injuries sustained by a Maine guest as the result of the negligence of a Maine host in the operation of an automobile undoubtedly garaged, licensed and covered, if insured, by a policy issued in Maine for operation in Maine and the sister states, in the course of a temporary journey which began arid was to end in Maine. Massachusetts’ sole relationship with the occurrence is the purely adventitious circumstance that the accident occurred there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although adherence to the principle of stare decisis is generally a wise course of judicial action, it does not irreversibly require that we follow without deviation earlier pronouncements of law which are unsuited to modem experience and which no longer adequately serve the interests of justice.”
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.