Krause v. Krause’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently July 1983 · most notably Scarano v. Central R. Co. of New Jersey (1953), 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens (1957)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 116 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Starbuck v. . Starbuck · Johnson v. . Johnson · Jones v. . Jones · Fischer v. Fischer · Sparkill Realty Corporation v. State
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot lose sight of the fact that the present defendant was himself the party who had obtained the decree of divorce which he now asserts to be invalid and repudiates in order that he may now disown any legal obligation to support the plaintiff, whom he purported to marry. To refuse to permit this defendant to escape his obligation to support plaintiff does not mean that the courts of this State recognize as valid a judgment of divorce which necessarily is assumed to be invalid in the case at bar, but only that it is not open to the defendant in these proceedings to avoid the responsibility which he voluntarily incurred. “It is conceded that the estoppel which is invoked against the present defendant is not a true estoppel as that term is ordinarily understood, although the effect is the same in the case at bar.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Magner v. Hobby · Tonti v. Chadwick“lightly undertaken and lightly discarded.”
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.