Gill v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2001
5 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 Brown v. Brown · Crowder v. Crowder · Matheson v. McCormac · Barstow v. Barstow · Moyle v. Moyle
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Physical cruelty by a spouse which justifies the granting of a divorce in this State, has generally been defined as `actual personal violence, or such a course of physical treatment as endangers life, limb or health, and renders cohabitation unsafe.' Brown v. Brown , 215 S.C. 502, 508 , 56 S.E. (2d) 330, 333 (1949). See also Crowder v. Crowder , 246 S.C. 299 , 143 S.E. (2d) 580 (1965). While there is no specific test for determining whether or not certain acts constitute physical cruelty, it has been repeatedly stated that not every slight violence committed by the husband or wife against the other will authorize a divorce on this ground. Brown, supra; Barstow v. Barstow , 223 S.C. 136 , 74 S.E. (2d) 541 (1953).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anders v. Anders
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.