607 So. 2d 1214 - Saunders v. Alford’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2024
18 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 421 So. 2d 1046 - Pruett v. City of Rosedale · Moulin v. Monteleone · Kline v. Ansell · Fadgen v. Lenkner · 368 So. 2d 213 - Munford, Inc. v. Peterson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protection of the love, society, companionship, and comfort that form the foundation of a marriage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“heart balm torts are `outmoded archaic holdovers.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are not here concerned with the tort of alienation of affections. That cause was decided adversely to the plaintiff and he does not challenge that disposition by cross appeal. Our task is but to consider the extent to which it is advisable to judicially abolish the tort of criminal conversation and whether we have the authority to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.