Kraus v. Kraus’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2005
15 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 Koehler v. Burlington Northern, Inc. · Hartpence v. Rogers · McDowell v. Schuette · Clayton Brokerage Co. of St. Louis v. Pilla · Morgan v. Ross
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alienation of affections is an intentional tort, and the elements of the cause of action are defendant’s wrongful conduct, plaintiffs loss of the affections or consortium of his spouse, and the causal connection between such conduct of defendant and the loss by plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hester v. Barnett“The foundation of a cause of action for alienation of affection is the loss of consortium.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Helsel v. Noellsch
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.