Roberson v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1999
7 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 Hamilton Ex Rel. Hamilton v. Hamilton · Coles v. Coles · McEachnie v. McEachnie · Hales v. Hales · Johnson v. Johnson
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.
“Desertion contemplates a voluntary separation of one party from the other, without justification, an intention not to return, and the absence of consent or connivance of the other party. Desertion as a ground for divorce has been broadened in this jurisdiction to include “constructive” desertion. For the desertion to be “constructive” in character, one spouse must show misconduct by the other spouse forcing the former to abandon the marital abode. If such misconduct is shown the spouse remaining in the marital abode is treated, in the eyes of the law, as the deserter. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards“It is well established now that when a wife leaves the marital abode without just cause, her desertion is a bar to a claim for separate maintenance. See Lee v. Lee, D.C.App., 267 A.2d 824 (1970) ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.