Dawson v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1976
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 Cochrane v. Cochrane · Robbins v. Robbins · Brookhouse v. Brookhouse · Pierce v. Pierce · Babcock v. Babcock
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.
“The fact that a separate maintenance decree, to which counsel for defendant refers was entered in 1937, does not affect the right to a divorce if otherwise justified, at least in this case, since the order of separate maintenance is not in the record, and we do not know whether it decided anything as to the fault of either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Stinson“If the aim of the statute is, as has been held (Buford v. Buford, App. D.C., 156 F.2d. 567 ), to legally end a marriage which no longer exists in fact, then this, we think, is an appropriate case to carry that aim into effect. A divorce, accordingly should have been decreed by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Stinson“Apparently there is a growing conviction in the United States that a marriage which has ceased to exist factually by its continuance does more harm than good.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Stinson
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.