Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1976 · most notably Christiansen v. Fulton State Hospital (1976), L v. N (1959)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 City of St. Louis v. Butler Co. · Lohmeyer v. St. Louis Cordage Co. · Clemens v. Clemens · Lutker v. Lutker · Hoffman v. Hoffman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A single act, or occasional acts, will not suffice. The acts relied upon must amount to a species of mental cruelty, and must evidence a course of conduct by one of the parties toward the other whereby the other’s condition is rendered intolerable through acts of such character and frequency as to be subversive of the family relation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers““Under the Constitution of the United States any person has the right to worship as they please . . . The fact that the wife believes one way and the husband another way, insofar as religion is concerned, is no grounds for divorce”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mollish v. Mollish
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.