Poteet v. Poteet’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Burch v. Burch (1952), 49 Ala. App. 514 - Phillips v. Phillips (1973)
5 federal appellate · 36 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 Chavez v. Chavez · Clyburn v. Clyburn · Olberding v. Gohres · Walker v. Walker · Slaughter v. Slaughter
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘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“* * * [T]he facts which the Court finds sufficient to warrant a permanent separation and relief arising therefrom under the 1901 Act, since the 1933 amendment, might be deemed of force enough to sustain a decree for total divorce. We are not to be understood as saying that in all cases a permanent separation must necessarily precede action for divorce on the ground of incompatibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whenever the husband and wife shall have permanently separated and no longer live or cohabit together, as husband and wife, either may institute suit in the district court for a division of property, or for the disposition of the children, without asking for or obtaining in said suit a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony; or the wife may institute suit for alimony alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilmore v. Gilmore
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.