Randall v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ When a separation has actually taken place, or when it has been fully decided upon, and the articles contemplate a su’table provision for the wife and children, or an equitable and suitable division of the property, the benefits of which both have enjoyed during the coverture, no principle of public policy is disturbed by them; on the contrary, if they are fair and equal, and are not the result of fraud or coercion, reasons abundant may be found for supporting them, in their tendency to put an end to controversies, to prevent litigation, and to give to the wife an independence in respect to her support which without some such arrangement she could not have, under the circumstances.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nance v. Gentry · Nichols v. Nichols

2. ““It may be that this would not release him from his obligation to the public, to see that under no circumstances, while he had ability to prevent it, should she become a public charge, but the agreement would protect him against any claim made on her behalf; and this was probably all that was contemplated.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beard v. Beard