Wolf v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Nolin v. Pearson (1906), Kline v. Ansell (1980)
31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Bennett v. . Bennett · Foot v. Card · Clow v. Chapman · Haynes v. Nowlin · Reynolds v. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There has been but little, if any, difference of opinion as to the right of a husband to sue for what is termed ‘the loss of consortium/ that is, the loss of his wife’s society, affection and assistance * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.