Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Barnes v. Barnes (1892), Hayn v. Hayn (1946)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Kennedy v. . Kennedy · Kennedy v. . Ryall · Hayes v. Hayes · Black v. Black · Latham v. Latham
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was formerly 'thought that to constitute -extreme cruelty, such as would authorize the granting of a divorce', physical violence is necessary; but the modern and better-considered cases have repudiated this doctrine as taking too low and sensual a view of the marriage relation, and it is now very generally held that any unjustifiable conduct on the part of either the husband or the wife, which so grievously wounds the mental feelings of the other, or so utterly destroys the peace of mind of the other as to seriously impair the bodily health or endanger the life of the other, or such as in any other manner endangers the life of the other, or such as utterly destroys the legitimate ends and objects of matrimony, constitutes ‘extreme cruelty’ under the statutes, although no physical or personal violence may be inflicted, or even threatened. (Citations.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The plaintiff in an action for divorce must have been an actual resident, in good faith, of the Territory, for ninety days next preceding the filing of the petition, and a resident of the county in which the action is brought at the time the petition is filed: ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beach v. Beach““An action for divorce must be brought in the county of which the plaintiff is an actual resident at the time of filing the petition. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beach v. Beach
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.