335 Pa. Super. 41 - Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably 341 Pa. Super. 76 - Flynn v. Flynn (1985), 352 Pa. Super. 432 - Miller v. Miller (1986)
42 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 Boyd v. Boyd · 311 Pa. Super. 407 - Jones v. Jones · 176 Pa. Super. 108 - Totino v. Totino · 124 N.J. Super. 258 - Sachs v. Commercial Ins. Co. of Newark · 124 N.J. Super. 259 - Brittner v. Brittner
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d)(1) It shall be lawful for the court to grant a divorce where a party has filed a complaint and an affidavit alleging that the parties have lived separate and apart for a period of at least three years, and that the marriage is irretrievably broken, and (ii) the respondent denies one or more of the allegations set forth in the affidavit, but after notice and hearing, the court determines that the parties have lived separate and apart for a period of at least three years and that the marriage is irretrievably broken.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[C]ohabitation" means the mutual assumption of those rights and duties attendant to the relationship of husband and wife. The ties that bind two individuals in a marital relationship involve more than sexual intercourse. Thus, we find that instances of sexual relations during a separation period do not, without more, defeat a claim that the parties have lived separate and apart for purposes of Section 201(d).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Cohabitation is clearly not remaining at someone’s house overnight. It is clearly not remaining ... for the weekend. Cohabitation is a definition that ha's to be viewed in light of the facts of each individual case.... We are talking about a consistent pattern of conduct established over a substantial period of time with one person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.