Enger v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Ferrero v. Associated Materials Inc. (1991), Allrid v. Emory University (1982)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Winter v. Jones · FH Ross & Company v. White · 134 Ga. App. 219 - Southern Railway Co. v. A. O. Smith Corp. · Hargroves v. Chambers · 125 Ga. App. 342 - Jackson v. Young
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to bring an action for alienation of affections was a substantive right which had vested at the time of the repeal of this cause of action by the General Assembly. Therefore, the portion of the [statute] which made the repeal of the cause of action for alienation of affections retrospective as to pending actions [was] unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although legislation which involves mere procedural or evidentiary changes may operate retrospectively, legislation which affects substantive rights may operate prospectively only. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[l]aws usually may not have retrospective application.”
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.