Cunningham v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1972
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pope v. Pope · Crews v. Crews · McGregor v. McGregor · Twyman v. State · Shackleton v. Shackleton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 231. Knowledge of Offenses Condoned.—One of the essential elements of condonation is knowledge on the part of the forgiving spouse, either actual or presumed, of the offense alleged to have been forgiven or condoned. This principle arises out of the nature of condonation itself, for a forgiveness of an offense necessarily implies a knowledge of the offense forgiven. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Champion v. Champion
How this case has been treated — in progress
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