Oyler v. . Oyler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Had the wife in this case been on notice that the husband would raise adultery as a bar to her alimony claim, she could have pled and sought to prove recrimination or condo-nation as dictated by Family Court Rule 11---- In our opinion it would be extremely unjust to allow the husband to raise the issue of adultery, a complete bar to alimony, by surprise at this stage of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Doe v. Doe

2. “[c]learly, ... adultery involves the introduction of new matter which constitutes an avoidance to a claim for alimony,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffith v. Griffith