56 So. 2d 441 - Todd v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 589 So. 2d 260 - Chiles v. CHILDREN A, B, C, D, E, AND F (1991), 99 So. 2d 255 - North Shore Realty Corporation v. Gallaher (1957)
1 federal appellate · 69 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 Stewart v. Stewart · Kennedy v. Kennedy · McGill v. McGill · 131 W. Va. 239 - Kessel v. Kessel · Kennedy v. Kennedy
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he will is dethroned by frequent indulgence and failure to control one's appetite for strong drink. .. . [O]ne whose habit of indulgence in strong drink is so fixed that he cannot resist getting drunk anytime the temptation is offered. Inebriety must be frequent, exclusive, and be the dominant passion. The habitual but moderate use of intoxicating liquors does not meet the test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.