Karl v. Karl’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1992
7 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 Eals v. Swan · Hayes v. Hayes · Coston v. Coston · Savin v. Savin · Fouquier v. Fouquier
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is well established in the jurisprudence of this State that a wife's innocence of immoral acts is presumed; that the burden is upon the husband, in charging her with immorality, to establish the adulterous relationship by either direct or circumstantial evidence; and that, if circumstantial evidence is alone relied upon, the proof must be so convincing as to exclude any other reasonable hypothesis but that of guilt. Hayes v. Hayes, 225 La. 374 , 73 So.2d 179 (1954); Coston v. Coston, 196 La. 1095 , 200 So. 474 (1941); Gastrell v. Gastrell, 176 La. 515 , 146 So. 40 (1933); Fister v. Fister (La.App.) 131 So.2d 103 (3d Cir. 1961). "Suspicion of guilt arising even to a high degree is nonetheless suspicion and insufficient to establish lack of chastity in view of the rule that, where the chastity of a female is involved, a court of justice must be guided by only clearcut evidence. Olivier v. Abunza, 226 La. 456 , 76 So.2d 528 (1954); Fister v. Fister, supra." (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions 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.