Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1976
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Pavletich v. Pavletich · Chavez v. Chavez · Blankenship v. Blankenship · Mansur v. Mansur
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.
““ * * *. Chavez v. Chavez, 39 N.M. 480 , 50 P.2d 264 , 101 A.L.R. 635 , in so far as it holds it to be the imperative duty of the chancellor to deny a divorce upon a showing of recrimination, should no longer be followed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howay v. Howay · Garner v. Garner““It would be absurd to say that ‘incompatibility’ itself could be pleaded by way of recrimination as a defense to a divorce sought upon the ground of incompatibility.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burch v. Burch · Garner v. Garner
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.