Cate v. Cate’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Kientz v. Kientz (1912), Womack v. Womack (1904)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unhappiness sufficient to render the condition of both parties intolerable may arise from the mutual neglect of the conjugal duties; hut when the parties are thus at fault, the remedy must he sought by them, not in the courts, hut in the reformation of their conduct. The remedy is in their own hands, and until it has been tried without effect by the party complaining, the courts will not give effect to the complaint. Until this home remedy has been tested and failed, the condition of each may he said to he due to his or her own acts, and one must hear the consequences of his own misconduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stanley v. Stanley
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.