Mathews v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 1991
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Canter v. Koehring Company · 339 So. 2d 835 - Ducote v. Ducote · 444 So. 2d 600 - RJ D'HEMECOURT PETROLEUM v. McNamara · Coston v. Coston · De Maupassant v. Clayton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Granting [a divorce and a separation] within one judgment gives the parties two different forms of relief which are... mutually exclusive. The parties are still married, and also no longer married, at one and the same time. Such a result is substantially violative of Civil Code articles 136, 155, and 159; and is procedurally incompatible with C.C.P. article 462.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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