McKrell v. McKrell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 157 Pa. Super. 582 - Smith v. Smith (1944), Steinke v. Steinke (1975)
125 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 Esenwein v. Esenwein · Wick v. Wick · Angier v. Angier · Edmond's Appeal · 141 Pa. Super. 344 - Dearth v. Dearth
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Indignities may consist of vulgarity, unmerited reproach, habitual contumely, studied neglect, intentional incivility, manifest disdain, abusive language, malignant ridicule, and every other plain manifestation of settled hate and estrangement. . . . ’ . [TJhey must consist of such a course of conduct as is humiliating, degrading and inconsistent with the position and relation as a spouse.” (citations omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“indignities `must consist of a course of conduct or continued treatment which renders the condition of the innocent party intolerable and his or her life burdensome ... a course of conduct as is humiliating, degrading and inconsistent with the position and relation as a spouse.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The essential feature of the offense of indignities to the person is that it must consist of a course of conduct or continued treatment which renders the condition of the innocent party intolerable and his or her life burdensome . . . [citations omitted] .. . What is meant by such indignities is left undefined in the law, and depends largely upon the circumstances of each case; they must consist of such a course of conduct as is humiliating, degrading and inconsistent with the position and relation as a spouse ...” McKrell v. McKrell, supra, 352 Pa. at 180 , 42 A.2d at 612 .”
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.