Fronk v. Fronk’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1943
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Nichols v. Nichols · Reed v. Reed · McKinney v. Northcutt · Reed v. Peck, Guitar & Watson · Bennett v. Smith
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . no such inference of malice will flow from the mere fact of parental interference in the marital relations of his child. In such cases, the proof of the plaintiff must go further and show that the interference of the parent was without just cause or excuse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Lang
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.