Crouch v. Crouch’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1939
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the order and judgment are void for another reason. It is a verity in this case that when the plaintiff made the affidavit upon which the order of publication was granted, she knew the residence or stopping place of the defendant. She also knew where he was, when she testified before the referee. Yet she studiously concealed these facts from the commissioner and the court, for the evident purpose of obtaining a judgment of divorce without the knowledge of the defendant. . . . This was a gross and inexcusable fraud upon the court and the defendant, and vitiates the whole of the proceedings. For this reason alone the order of publication and all subsequent proceedings, including the judgment, should have been set aside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. Gordon
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.