Korman v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
5
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Immer v. Risko · Smith v. Kauffman · State v. Culver · Surratt, Adm'r v. Thompson · Keister's Administrator v. Keister's Executors
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in light of Surratt it would be an anomaly for us to apply inter-spousal immunity in this case. We would be invoking the doctrine ostensibly to preserve a family relationship which had been voluntarily terminated by the parties; to promote domestic harmony that had disappeared from the marriage; and to save a marriage which had been terminated by the murder of the wife by the husband. The rule of stare decisis does not require such specious reasoning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Counts v. Counts
How this case has been treated — in progress
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