Shook v. Crabb’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Boblitz v. Boblitz (1983), 169 W. Va. 698 - Sitzes v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. (1982)
31 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Klein v. Klein · Rains v. Rains · Lewis v. Lewis · Hosko v. Hosko · Leach v. Leach
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [the husband wife] are not adversaries at all, our whole system is subverted. * * The majority counters by saying that the law is equal to the task of discovering connivance by husband and wife. This again misses the point. The proud boast that the law gets at the truth is premised on the adversary process. Take away that premise, and the conclusion goes with it. What sort of "truth" surfaces when plaintiff and defendant desparately want the same result? How do courts avoid collusion if the defendant wins by losing? As was so appropriately stated in the dissent in Hosko v. Hosko, 385 Mich. 39 , 187 N.W.2d 236, 240 (Mich. 1971), "this really results in a joint venture," with "the husband calling his insurance agent, the wife calling her lawyer and both entertaining visions of better days ahead."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. S.A.V. v. K.G.V. · Sav v. Kgv“While it is currently fashionable to treat the harmony of the home lightly, the family nevertheless remains the bulwark of our society. Permitting husband and wife to sue each other for negligence is inimical to the very notion of harmony and trust so important to the marriage relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. S.A.V. v. K.G.V. · Sav v. Kgv
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.