Abbott v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Merenoff v. Merenoff (1978), Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 State v. . Oliver · Shaddock v. Town of Clifton · Hasbrouck v. Weaver
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘it is better to draw the curtain, shut out the public gaze, and leave the parties to forget and forgive.’ ” (p. 307 of 67 Me.) 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moulton v. Moulton““There is not only no civil remedy, but there.is no civil right, during coverture, to be redressed at any time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Divorce cannot make that a cause of action which was not a cause of action before divorce.”
1 later decision 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.