Morey v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hoekstra v. Helgeland (1959), Veeder v. Kennedy (1999)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Foot v. Card · Tufty v. Sioux Transit Co. · Fratini v. Caslini · Tice v. Mandel · Pearsall v. Colgan
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The damages, therefore, must be so excessive as to strike mankind, at first blush, as being beyond all mesaure, unreasonable and outrageous, and such as manifestly show the jury to have been actuated by passion, partiality, prejudice or corruption.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A loss or impairment of any such elements will sustain an action for alienation of affection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. wrongful conduct of the defendant; 2. loss of affection or consortium; and 3. a causal connection between such conduct and loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Veeder v. Kennedy
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.