Leclerc v. Leclerc’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Peacock v. Bradshaw (1946), Girtman v. Girtman (1940)
53 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 White v. White · Stone v. Duffy · Hanrahan v. Sears · McCurley v. McCurley · State v. Richardson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of [what is now RSA 491:7], that the superior court shall take cognizance “of petitions for divorce, nullity of marriage, alimony, custody of children and allowance to wife from husband’s property for support of herself and children” merely impose upon the superior court the duty of administering the divorce statutes and confer upon it no independent jurisdiction over the custody of children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Nelson“a divorce proceeding be kept alive after the death of one party for the purpose of dealing with a new situation brought about solely by such death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampers v. Comm'r
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.