Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The allegations of the petition tested by the provisions of the statute and the rules of pleading, particularly in controversies of this character, are vicious from want of specification of facts constituting the offenses, or even aver-ments of a course of misconduct, from which the class of facts relied upon might be inferred. The terms of the statute ‘excesses,’ cruel treatment and outrages, are conclusions from facts, or are rather compound questions of law and facts; the constituent acts and circumstances of which should be set forth, that the court may judge whether in legal contemplation they are-within the description of the offenses that are-by statute good grounds for divorce.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rowden v. Rowden

2. “The terms are emphatic that the wife may require an injunction restraining the husband from the disposition of any part of the property in any manner, and it would seem to be imperative on the courts to issue such writ whenever it may be demanded by the wife. From the language employed, if construed literally, it would appear that but little discretion can be exercised in determining upon the application, and that the writ, when desired, would be one of right, and would issue almost as a matter of course.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swearingen v. Swearingen