Apitz v. Dames’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Klein v. Klein (1962), Merenoff v. Merenoff (1978)
42 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Reiche v. Smythe · Petri v. Commercial National Bank · Mertz v. Mertz · Brown v. Brown · Cowgill, Adm'r v. Boock, Adm'r
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * when a husband inflicts intentional harm upon the person of his wife, the peace and harmony of the home has been so damaged that there is no danger that it will be further impaired by the maintenance of an action for damages and she may therefore maintain an action.” Id. at 271 , 287 P.2d at 598 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"It is the virtue of the common law that as mores change, the law will also change. An old rule is eroded and a new rule attaches to the body by accretion."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“there remains no domestic peace and felicity to be protected,”
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.