Halstead v. Halstead’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably Schlemm v. Schlemm (1960), 116 N.J. Super. 546 - Schiff v. Schiff (1971)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Galusha v. . Galusha
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the law does not favor separation between husband and wife, it does favor a settlement out of court and without resort to litigation, of all matters in dispute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. McElroy
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.