Elgin v. Elgin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
April 1967
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simon v. Simon · Willis v. Willis · Rowland v. Rowland · Hammond v. Crown Coach Co. · Young v. Hall
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.
“A party to a divorce action is not deprived of his status as an innocent party simply because his conduct has not been perfect at all times. Before one is prevented from being adjudged the innocent party his or her conduct must have been such as to entitle the other spouse to a divorce”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paxton v. Paxton
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.