Pierce v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1946
8 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 · Stanley v. Stanley · McDougall v. McDougall · Colvin v. Colvin · Wheeler v. Wheeler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record convinces us that appellant has deserted his wife and children without just cause. . . . There is no showing of conduct on respondent’s part which we can accept as an excuse for appellant’s abandonment of her and the children. ... No sufficient showing has been made to justify us in awarding a decree in appellant’s favor against the protest of the respondent who has done no wrong. In her pleadings and evidence, she has alleged and testified that she will again receive appellant in her home; that she will live with him as his wife; that she will do all she can to renew their former relations and make him a happy home, and that she will forgive and forget the past. These offers, which she has repeatedly made and still makes, have been continuously and persistently rejected. The record is devoid of even a suggestion that he at any time has sought a reconciliation, or consented to live with his wife and family. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. Pierce
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.