Stoll v. Plarr’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1989
3 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. Commonwealth · Marcum v. Hedger · Brumley v. Richardson · Burke v. Johnson · Sams v. Sigmon Ikerd Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is argued that the evidence showed that Mrs. Plarr continued to have affection for her husband, and was willing to continue to live and cohabit with him, and that the divorce was at his instance, not hers. This seems to us to be the equivalent of arguing that if the husband receives a fair share of his wife's affection he is not damaged by her devoting a substantial amount of her companionship, society and affection to another man. We conceive the law to be that, as the word `affection' is used in this connection, the husband is entitled to all of the affection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorder v. Sims
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.