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← 277 SO2D 468 - Palama v. Palama

Palama v. Palama’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1981
most recently cited

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “there must be a voluntary and unjustified separation by one spouse without the voluntary agreement of the other and with the intent of terminating the marital relationship.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a case of marital disharmony, falling short of cruel treatment. ...”
    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.