Winter v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The husband’s right to an exempt homestead cannot, we think, be urged against the wife who has been forced by his aggression to leave his domicile, and who, in an action for divorce, has obtained a judgment for alimony against him. The homestead law is a family shield, and cannot be employed by either spouse to wrong the other.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 18 Wash. 2d 775 - Stafford v. Stafford

2. “"The [homestead] law ought not to permit [the defendant-husband] to construct a shield that will protect him in his marital and domestic recklessness. By getting married again, he ought not to be permitted to relieve himself from the burden of supporting the child that he caused to come into the world."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Breedlove v. Breedlove

3. ““It was distinctly held in that case that a judgment for alimony in favor of the wife was a lien on the family homestead where the title was held by the husband.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 18 Wash. 2d 775 - Stafford v. Stafford