Taylor v. Keefe’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Morris v. Hartford Courant Co. (1986), King v. Board of Education (1985)
6 district · 54 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 8 Ohio Op. 5 - Fearon v. Treanor · Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co. · Foot v. Card · Valentine v. Pollak · Johnson v. Luhman
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by his acts, blandishments and seductions alienated [the mother's] love and affection [for her minor son] and destroyed the happiness of the plaintiff's home.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . (1) Possibility of a multiplicity of suits . . .; (2) Possibility of extortionary litigation, for this action, always susceptible to fraud, would become even more so by virtue of its numerical increase and the relative tenuousness of the child’s relationship; (3) Inability to define the point at which the child’s right would cease, inasmuch as the status itself hypothesizes mutability . . .; (4) Inability of a jury adequately to cope with the question of damages, first, because injuries like that now under discussion are hard to measure in money and courts are averse to permitting the more or less conjectural awards based on mental suffering, and second, because damages thus assessed are apt to overlap, the number and ages of children ordinarily being noted in a parent’s action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I am convinced that to uphold this complaint would open our courts to a flood of litigation that would inundate them. It would mean that everyone whose cheek is tinged by the blush of shame would rush into court to ask punitive damages to compensate them for their distress of body and mind and the damage that their reputation suffered in the community.”
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.