Lynn v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2019
11 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 Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co. · Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co. · Di Blasio v. Kolodner · Fadgen v. Lenkner · Merritt v. Cravens
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From and after the effective date of this act, the alienation of the affections of a spouse of sound mind and legal age or seduction of any person of sound mind and legal age is hereby abolished as a civil cause of action in this state.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“enticement, criminal conversation, and alienation of affections;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The action does not prevent human misconduct and the interests which the action seeks to protect are not protected by its existence. Viable contented marriages are not broken up by an outsider, and the harm engendered through the opportunity for blackmail and the ruination of defendant’s reputation by the mere [bringing of the action far outweighs any reasons for its continuance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Feldman v. Feldman
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.