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Chavez v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis

1935

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
7
states following
January 1981
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1981 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh (1952), Burch v. Burch (1952)

5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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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 Hengen v. Hengen · 1 E.H. Smith 177 - Gray v. . Shepard · Oertel v. Oertel · Robbins v. Robbins · 105 Pa. Super. 261 - Esenwein v. Esenwein

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

  1. ““ ‘Incompatibility’ is defined by the Century Dictionary as: ‘The quality or condition of being incompatible; incongruity; irreconcilableness.’ And Webster’s New International Dictionary: ‘Quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; * * * incapable of harmonious combination; incongruous; as, incompatible colors; incapable of harmonious association or acting in accord; disagreeing, as incompatible persons. * * * ’ Pope’s Legal Definitions gives the following: ‘Incompatibility. “The elements and qualities which may create incompatibility between persons elude exact definition ; so varied are the circumstances and so dependent is such a state of feeling upon education, habits of thought and peculiarities of character. * * * » > »”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hines v. Hines · Chappell v. Chappell

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.