Stanton v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis

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19 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In order to sustain an action for alienation of the husband's affections, it must appear ... that there had been a direct interference on the defendant's part, sufficient to satisfy the jury that the alienation was caused by the defendant, and the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show such interference... . But to maintain this action it must be established that the husband was induced to abandon the wife by some active interference on the part of the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 607 So. 2d 1220 - Kirk v. Koch

2. “To entitle the plaintiff to recover in an action for alienating affections, the burden of proof is upon the plaintiff, and the plaintiff must show that there was a direct interference upon the part of the defendant that not only was there infatuation of the husband or wife for the defendant, but that the defendant by wrongful act was the cause of it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fitch v. Valentine

3. “15 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, p. 865. Again, on page 866, it is said:”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fitch v. Valentine