Alexander v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scherer v. Scherer · Tidwell v. Critz · Adams v. Adams · Allen v. Allen
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.
“must consist of threats of bodily or other harm, or other means amounting to coercion, or tending to coerce the will of another, and actually inducing him to do an act contrary to his free will. The threats must be sufficient to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“has discretion to `approve the agreement in whole or in part, or refuse to approve it as a whole.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Lawrence“The question before the court was whether there was a . . . nondisclosure of a material fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Lawrence
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.