Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1966
18 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There was no proof of conjugal intercourse between the parties. Their living in the same house raises a presumption of matrimonial cohabitation; but this may be repelled by circumstances. In this case, a witness testifies that they had not slept together for years; and this raises a counter presumption that during this temporary reconciliation they were not occupants of the same bed. A return to live in the same house with a husband, but without connubial cohabitation, does not operate so complete a forgiveness," as where there was a renewal of the conjugal society or embraces. S Eccl. R. 342; 4 Id. 290; Shelford, 251.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barta v. Barta
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.