Labella v. Labella’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Pasquariello v. Pasquariello (1975), Stoner v. Stoner (1972)
59 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 Romaine v. . Chauncey · Dunham v. Dunham · Cary v. Cary · State Ex Rel. Morris v. Bulkeley · Christiano v. Christiano
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial courts have a distinct advantage over an appellate court in dealing with domestic relations, where all of the surrounding circumstances and the appearance and attitude of the parties are so significant.”
2 later decisions 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.