Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Mooty v. Mooty (1938), Cole v. Cole (1961)
40 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 Prall v. Prall · 15 Ala. App. 213 - Horn v. State · Hancock v. Hancock · Carlton v. Carlton · Beekman v. Beekman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Extreme cruelty as ground for divorce under our statute is by no means confined to physical violence. It includes in addition to physical violence, such conduct on the part of either spouse as would produce in the other continuous, intense mental pain and suffering, danger to health, or a forced abnegation of the marital relation.” 114 South. Rep. 663 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If extreme cruelty is relied on, physical violence or such treatment of abuse as damages health, or causes a constant apprehension of physical violence, renders cohabitation intolerable or makes it impractical to discharge marital duties, must be shown. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van v. Van
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.