George v. George’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh (1952), Matysek v. Matysek (2001)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 Herrick v. Herrick · Guillot v. Guillot · Smith v. Smith
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that the discretion which the trial Court is called upon to exercise depends not so much upon the comparative rectitude of conduct of the. spouses as upon the probability of their being able to live together in such a manner as to be for their best interests and the best interests of society.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lagemann v. Lagemann
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.