Crenshaw v. Crenshaw’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) endanger life, limb, or health, or create a reasonable apprehension of such danger, rendering the relationship unsafe for the party seeking relief, or (2) be so unnatural and infamous as to make the marriage revolting to the non-offending spouse and render it impossible for that spouse to discharge the duties of marriage, thus destroying any basis for its continuance.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 909 So. 2d 1151 - Horn v. Horn · 977 So. 2d 1257 - McIntosh v. McIntosh

2. “(1) the health of the husband and his earning capacity; (2) the health of the wife and her earning capacity; (3) the entire source of income of both parties; (4) the reasonable needs of the wife; (5) the reasonable needs of the child; (6) the necessary living expenses of the husband; (7) the estimated amount of income taxes the respective parties must pay on their incomes; (8) the fact that the wife has the free use of the home, furnishings, and automobile, and (9) such other facts and circumstances bearing on the subject that might be shown by the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 132 So. 3d 1066 - Collins v. Collins

3. “Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment is not the catch-all category to permit a divorce when a marriage is suffering difficulties, and absent an agreement by the spouses that would permit an irreconcilable differences divorce, neither party is entitled to be granted a divorce without providing the proof necessary to support the grounds that are alleged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 879 So. 2d 1043 - Moses v. Moses