Freeman v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1964
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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There is no right more clear than that of a party to have the allegations in his adversary’s pleading made with such reasonable and practicable definiteness and certainty as to enable him to meet them with counter allegations, and to prepare, so far as the truth of the case will permit, to meet them with proofs. In no class of cases has the sufficiency of pleadings, in this par ticular, come in question more frequently than in actions for divorce on the ground of adultery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poole v. Poole
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.