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← 43 DEL 361 - X. v. X.

X. v. X.’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1986
most recently cited

2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1986

2 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 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.

  1. ““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 majority
  2. “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 majority

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.