Crews v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1995
10 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 Cate v. Cate
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decree from bed and board and the divorce from the bonds of matrimony both rest upon the same ground, and.the same evidence will sustain either, with this qualification: Upon the evidence the chancellor has a sound discretion to grant the one kind of divorce or the other as he may deem best under the circumstances. The text writers generally, and many jurists, declaim against divorces from bed and board as useless, if not absolutely wrong in principle, but we cannot enter upon a discussion like that. The law authorizes divorces of that kind, and the implication, at least, is that circumstances must determine when they should be granted. The chancellor has exercised his discretion, and we cannot say that his discretion has been abused. His decree is therefore affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crabtree v. Crabtree
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.