Warner v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

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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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Desertion, under the statute, is the wilful abandonment of one party) by the other without cause, and against the will of the party abandoned, for the period of two years. If the husband’s conduct is so cruel towards his_ wife that she cannot live and cohabit with him with safety to her health, or without peril to her life, or if she has good reason to believe she cannot, and for such reason she leaves him and abandons his home, she does not thereby commit the crime of desertion. In such case she does not leave her 'husband or her home in consequence of any wilfulness on her part, but is compelled by the cruelty of her husband, and against her will, so to do. • The desertion in such case is upon his part, and not upon hers. He as completely commits the crime of desertion when, by his cruel conversation and conduct, he compels her for safety to leave him and his home, as when 'he wilfully and without cause leaves and abandons her.” Warner v. Warner, 54 Mich. 492 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Train v. Train · Ferguson v. Ferguson