X. v. X.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1986
2 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 Prall v. Prall · Fleegle v. Fleegle · Bailey v. Bailey · 103 Cal. App. 583 - Ritter v. Ritter · 90 N.J. Eq. 490 - Parmly v. Parmly
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Worry or mental suffering sufficient to endanger, to some extent, the health of a spouse occasioned by the conduct of the other spouse is prevalent in many married lives, but that of itself would not be a cause for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty within the meaning of our statute.” [ 4 Terry 361 , 47 A. 2d 478 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cannon v. Cannon“what merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lea'e v. Lea'e
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.