Russo v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation (1999), Lockhart v. Loosen (1997)
41 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 Maynard v. Hill · McCall v. Batson · Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Florence Printing Co. · Nelson v. Concrete Supply Company · Fennell v. Littlejohn
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he common law changes when necessary to serve the needs of the people. We have not hesitated to act in the past when it has become apparent that the public policy of the State is offended by outdated rules of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beaty · Fabian v. Lindsay“[clauses of action for criminal conversation and alienation of affections present opportunities for blackmail. They are often brought for mercenary or vindictive reasons. The remedies of alienation of affections and criminal conversation foster bitterness, promote vexatious lawsuits, put marriages on the marketplace, and use marriages as a means of character assassination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Widenhouse v. Colson“Human experience is that the affections of persons who are devoted and faithful are not susceptible to larceny no matter how cunning or stealthful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fitch v. Valentine
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.