O'GRADY v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Merenoff v. Merenoff (1978), Nocktonick Ex Rel. Matson v. Nocktonick (1980)
2 district · 28 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 Clark v. Allaman · State ex rel. Godard v. Topeka Water Co. · Sink v. Sink · Norris v. Corkill · Harrington v. Lowe
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither spouse may maintain an action in tort for damages against the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"These constitutional provisions themselves irretrievably broke down the common-law theory of marital unity, destroyed the notion of feminine subjection to baronial authority, threw off the restraints of coverture, and installed the modern doctrine of the equality of man and wife before the law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reason normally given by the courts for such refusal [to abrogate immunity] is that it would be contrary to public policy and tend to disrupt the marital relation. We think the reasoning sound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.