Harris v. Kunkel’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1972
5 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 Maahs v. Schultz · Rogers v. Hollister
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we consider the rule is as stated in 37 C. J. p. 898, that the cause of action accrues when the alienation is finally accomplished, and that it is so accomplished when a judgment for divorce is entered, if not before.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kasper v. Enich“"A priori it would seem that a cause of action for alienation of affections had arisen in favor of the plaintiff when the judgment of divorce was entered, . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kasper v. Enich
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.