Harris v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1981
16 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 Hayes v. Hayes · 56 So. 2d 341 - Dobbs v. Sea Isle Hotel · Coston v. Coston · Savin v. Savin · McCartan v. Filkins
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But on viewing the instant cause in the light of those principles we cannot conclude that plaintiff has established, even by indirect or circumstantial evidence, the charge made against her husband. Except for the claimed admissions of guilt by defendant (he denied having made them), no facts or circumstances are revealed by the record that lead fairly and necessarily to the conclusion that adultery was committed as alleged in the petition. Respecting the admissions, our jurisprudence is to the effect that such proof is insufficient, of itself, to convict the defendant. Harman v. McLeland, 16 La. 26 ; Mack v. Handy, 39 La.Ann. 491 , 2 So. 181 ; Seibert, [Siebert] v. Klapper, 49 La.Ann. 241 , 21 So. 259 ; Arbour v. Murray, 222 La. 684 , 63 So.2d 425 . It follows that for us to hold in plaintiff’s favor we must (as stated in Savin v. Savin, 218 La. 754 , 51 So.2d 41, 45 ) ‘ * * * draw upon our imagination, and rule that whenever a man and a woman have the opportunity to, they do commit adultery. * * *.’ ””
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.