Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably 98 N.C. App. 423 - Chicopee, Inc. v. Sims Metal Works, Inc. (1990), 49 N.C. App. 226 - Ledford v. Ledford (1980)
31 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 Singleton v. Stewart · Robertson Ex Rel. Robertson v. Stanley · Matter of Estate of Adamee · Weeks v. Weeks · Young v. . Young
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . when separated spouses who have executed a separation agreement resume living together in the home which they occupied before the separation, they hold themselves out as man and wife `in the ordinary occupation of the descriptive phrase.' Irrespective of whether they have resumed CT Page 4240 sexual relations, in contemplation of law, their action amounts to a resumption of marital cohabitation. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.