Whitehead v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2011
5 district · 15 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 Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Boddie v. Connecticut · United States v. Guest
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of annulment, divorce, and separation, ... is conferred upon the family court of the circuit in which the applicant has been domiciled or has been physically present for a continuous period for at least three months next preceding the application therefor. No absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony shall be granted for any cause unless either party to the marriage has been domiciled or has been physically present in the State for a continuous period of at least six months next preceding the application therefor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An applicant for divorce who fails to prove a ground for divorce will not be granted a divorce because of failure to satisfy a substantive requirement for divorce. Similarly, an applicant who fails to prove that he has been domiciled or has been physically present in this State for [six months as set forth by statute] will not be able to obtain a divorce because of failure to satisfy a substnative [sic] requirement, not because he is denied access to court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““the court finds that one of the parties has been a resident of this State, or is a member of the armed services who has been stationed in this State, for 90 days next preceding the commencement of the proceeding or the entry of the decree. . . .” Cited in Whitehead v. Whitehead, supra, 492 P.2d at 947 . See also the following cases which have sustained shorter durational residency requirements for divorce: Shiffman v. Askew, 359 F.Supp. 1225 (D.C.Fla.197.3) (six months) ; Coleman v. Coleman, 32 Ohio St.2d 155 , 291 N.E.2d 530 (1972) (one year) ; Porter v. Porter, 296 A.2d 900 (N.H.1972) (one year) ; Whitehead v. Whitehead, 492 P.2d 939 (Hawaii 1972) (one year) ; and Place v. Place, 129 Vt. 326 , 278 A.2d 710 (1971) (six months).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larsen v. Gallogly
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.