Hunt v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Pickering v. Pickering (1989), Daugaard v. Baltic Cooperative Building Supply Ass'n (1984)
5 federal appellate · 26 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 Fadgen v. Lenkner · Morey v. Keller · Bigley v. Unity Auto Parts, Inc. · Pearsall v. Colgan · Bearbower v. Merry
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While I agree that criminal conversation should be abolished, I am convinced that the tort of alienation of affections should be preserved until repealed by legislative action. It is one thing to abolish an action in tort which is devoid of defenses and unjust. It is quite another to abolish a long-standing legislative and judicial intention to preserve the sanctity of marriage by providing a civil remedy, and where reasonable and just defenses are available to a defendant. ... I feel certain that a case will arise in the future where some party has so flagrantly broken up a stable marriage that we would rue the day that an alienation suit was not available to the injured party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pankratz v. Miller
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.