442 So. 2d 1310 - Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. ““Separation from bed and board may be claimed reciprocally for the following causes: * * * * * * “3. On account of habitual intemperance of one of the married persons, or excesses, cruel treatment, or outrages of one of them toward the other, if such habitual intemperance, or such ill-treatment is of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable; ****** “5. Of the abandonment of the husband by his wife or the wife by her husband; ****** “10. When the spouses have lived six months separate and apart, voluntarily and without reconciliation; provided that both spouses shall execute an affidavit attesting to and testifying that they have so lived separate and apart and that there exists irreconcilable differences between the spouses to such a degree and nature as to render their living together insupportable and impossible. In all such cases, the proceedings shall be entitled ‘In the matter of_(petitioner) and his (or her) spouse_’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Whiteley v. Whiteley

2. ““Art. 138. Separation from bed and board may be claimed reciprocally for the following causes: ... (3) on account of ... cruel treatment, or outrages of one of them towards the other, if such ... ill treatment is of such a nature as to render their living together insupportable Art. 141. A separation from bed and board shall be granted although both spouses are mutually at fault in causing the separation....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Morgan v. Morgan