Van Dusan v. Van Dusan’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. ““The evidence does not satisfy us that these parties ever availed themselves of the opportunity, offered them after the divorce was obtained, of changing their relation. Doubtless the complainant was willing, and we could wish that defendant had been honorable enough to grant her request; but it is not within our province to make a contract of marriage on account of commiseration for one or contempt for the other party, when the evidence does not show one to exist. We think the case within the principle of Rose v. Rose, 67 Mich. 619 ( 35 N. W. 802 ). We are therefore not disposed to disturb the decree of the circuit judge, who saw the witnesses, and, in our judgment, committed no error in dismissing the bill.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barker v. Valentine