Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2016
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 563 So. 2d 594 - Bell v. Parker · 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder · 637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee · 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom · 652 So. 2d 1113 - Brooks v. Brooks
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q. So in your complaint for divorce, you alleged that you were entitled to a divorce on the grounds of habitual cruel and inhumane [sic] treatment and/or habitual drunkenness. Can you tell [t]he Court what behavior that your husband — what conduct that occurred during the marriage that you are basing that allegation on? A. The coming home late at night or coming home the next day intoxicated. Coming home, passing out, urinating on the bed or in the floor. Several girls calling him all of the time in my presence asking him to meet them at a bar. It was constant. Q. How long did you and he live together? A. We have not lived together any since the date we were married, never: Q: Did you live together before you were married? A. A year. About a year prior to our marriage, we had lived together. THE COURT: Y’all didn’t separate after the date of the marriage? MS. PACE: Well, when we got married, I still lived in Gautier and he was living in Orange Beach and we got married [at] the courthouse in Mobile. And that night, I came back home to Gautier and he still resided in Orange Beach. And we never lived together from that day of marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace v. Pace“habitual ill-founded accusations, threats and malicious sarcasm, insults and verbal abuse may cause such mental suffering as to destroy health and endanger the life of an innocent spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not fulfill the requirements of a divorce on the grounds [sic] of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.”
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.