Masterman v. Masterman’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1947
11 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 Carpenter v. Carpenter · Litowich v. Litowich · Gray v. Hodge · Reed v. Reed · Bierer v. Fretz
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the home, love must be the law, and mutual concessions remove all occasions for controversy. The interference of courts can never be invoked beneficially to settle differences in the family. It comes only as a last resort, to separate those who fail or refuse to make home what is should be.” ( 58 Kan. 757 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowe v. Rowe““We adhere to the doctrine that words may be as cruel as blows.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Williams
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.