McDowell v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2010
9 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 Johnson v. Johnson · Atkinson v. Atkinson · Johnson v. Johnson · Gibson v. Gibson · Strickland v. Strickland
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single assault by one spouse upon the other spouse can constitute physical cruelty ... [if it is] life threatening or ... indicative of an intention to do seriously bodily harm or of such a degree as to raise a reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorecki v. Gorecki
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.