Eward v. Eward’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1972
22 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 Bosseker v. Cramer · Stewart v. Stewart · Snider v. Snider · Alexander v. Alexander · Graft v. Graft
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After hearing the evidence of the adultery of appellant, the court found that she was a fit and proper person to have the care and custody of the child, thus finding by clear implication that she was not guilty of the charge of adultery, ‘and that appellee’s charge against her was false. . . . Appellee was guilty of the statutory offense of cruel and inhuman treatment in making this false charge against his wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMurrey v. McMurrey““. . . In order that the appellee may prevail in this suit, he must not only be the injured party, but also the innocent party, for divorce is a remedy provided for the innocent party, and, if such party himself is guilty of a statutory offense, he cannot prevail. Stewart, Marriage and Divorce § 314.” (our emphasis)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Connor v. O'Connor
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.