Morehouse v. Koble’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The separation of appellant and his wife was a separation by mutual consent. What he did was with her consent, and in our judgment does not amount to an abandonment within the meaning of the [husband descents statute]. Abandonment as used in this statute, and as applied to the instant case, implies a want of consent, an unwillingness, on the part of the wife.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Patrick

2. “the act of a husband or wife who leaves his or her consort willfully, without justification either in the consent or wrongful conduct of the other, and with an intention of causing a perpetual separation of the parties....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Estate of Calcutt v. Calcutt