Moulin v. Monteleone’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 9 to 5 Fashions, Inc. v. Spurney (1989), Nelson v. Jacobsen (1983)
7 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United States v. Kirby · Territory of Hawaii v. Osaki Mankichi · In re the Louisville Underwriters · Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is in some measure based upon the same obsolete idea that the wife is one of the husband’s chattels, and that her companionship, her services and her affections are his property, for the loss of which, by wrongful inducement on the part of another man, the husband ought to be compensated with money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... that, under the civil law, in the absence of a statute conferring such right, there is no right of action for damages for the loss of the services or support or companionship or affections of a human being.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable, in solido, with that person, for the damage caused by such act.”
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.