Griffiths v. Griffiths’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1967
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.
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.
“* * * in the granting of divorces, the State, as well as the parties, is interested, and that the public is represented by what is called `the conscience of the court,' and a judicial investigation of all such cases, particularly when they are ex parte, should be pursued with the utmost vigilance for the purpose of determining the bona fides of the application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * If arrangements between parties providing for the institution of divorce suits in consideration of the payment of a large sum of money are to receive the sanction of this court, every legal restriction against the voluntary dissolution of the marriage tie can readily be avoided * * [Italics supplied.]”
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.