Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Such outrages are good grounds for divorce in our state. Our statute differs from those of a majority of the states in respect to the cruel treatment which will authorize a divorce. It does not confine such treatment to bodily harm, or threats of the same, and-properly includes within the meaning of ‘excesses, cruel treatment, and outrages,’’ insults or injuries to the mind or the heart. In some of the states it is not ordinarily deemed sufficient cause for divorce that the husband should have accused his wife of unchastity, but as an act of gross cruelty almost enough of itself for that purpose. 1 Bishop on Mar. and Div. § 726. Our courts, under the peculiar wording of our statute, hold it not almost but altogether a sufficient act of cruelty to justify dissolving the bonds of matrimony. Pinkard v. Pinkard, 14 Tex. 356 [ 65 Am. Dec. 129 ]; Schreck v. Schreck, 32 Tex. 579 [ 5 Am. Rep. 251 ]; Sheffield v. Sheffield, 3. Tex. 79.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boydston v. Boydston