Payne v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1969
15 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute does not define the term ‘impotency’ but in the law of divorce it means want of potentia copulandi and not merely incapacity for procreation. It is an incapacity that admits neither copulation nor procreation. And what the law refers to is capacity for copula vera and not partial and imperfect or unnatural copulation. The incapacity must also be incurable: 1 Bishop, Mar. & Div., § 765 et seq.; D-e v. A-g, 1 Rob. Ecc. 279.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bunger v. Bunger
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.