Thomas P. Shearer v. Mary E. Shearer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Burch v. Burch · Otis v. Bahan · Poteet v. Poteet · Pavletich v. Pavletich · Chavez v. Chavez
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A legal separation or the dissolution of the marriage contract may be declared at the instance of the injured party for any of the following causes— * * * (8) incompatibility of temperament.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court must, of course, also weigh the possibilities of personal adjustment and reconciliation and the restoration of a normal marital status in determining whether to exercise its discretionary power to grant a divorce upon the ground of incompatibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hendry v. Hendry
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.