Kruse v. Kruse’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1984
13 state decisions
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 Brenner v. Plitt · Kruse v. Kruse · State v. Brown · France v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Whitehurst v. Rogers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction of the subject and the parties cannot be re-examined by the same parties in another suit. It is conclusive upon them of all questions put in issue by the pleadings. (Citations.) Until set aside by the court which rendered it, or reversed upon appeal, the judgment or decree is final and conclusive of the- questions decided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolf v. Wolf
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.