Hunt v. Hunt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• abolishing criminal conversation and finding that the “potential for abuse . . . is clear since the threat of exposure, publicity, and notoriety is more than sufficient to breed corruption, fraud and, misdealings on the part of unscrupulous persons in bringing unjustified and malicious suits.”
• concurring specially in part, and concurring in result in part
• concurring specially in part, and concurring in result in part
• action for criminal conversation unanimously abolished; two of the five justices would also abolish action for alienation of affections; three justices would preserve action for alienation, but concur in majority’s result for lack of evidence to sustain the alienation action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

41 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pickering v. Pickering
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-01-11· cited 119×
• Daugaard v. Baltic Cooperative Building Supply Ass'n
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-05-02· cited 116×
• Veeder v. Kennedy
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-02-24· cited 69×
• Osborne v. Stage (In Re Stage)
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-03-10· cited 47×
• Richard M. Jones v. Todd v. Swanson
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-09-03· cited 45×
• Russo v. Sutton
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-09-21· cited 42×
• Sanford v. Sanford
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2005-03-09· cited 41×
• Norton v. MacFarlane
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-09-12· cited 41×
• Zacher v. Budd Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-10-29· cited 41×
• Stumes v. Bloomberg
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-07-24· cited 35×
• Steiner v. County of Marshall
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-08-27· cited 35×
• Estate of Billings v. Deadwood Congregation of Jehovah Witnesses
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-09-22· cited 35×
• Saunders v. Alford
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-10-08· cited 34×
• Janklow v. Viking Press
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-12-11· cited 34×
• Schlosser v. Norwest Bank South Dakota, N.A.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-09-08· cited 30×
• Yankton Ethanol, Inc. v. Vironment, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-04-07· cited 30×
• Hershey v. Hershey
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-03-13· cited 29×
• Bland v. Hill
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 29×
• Pankratz v. Miller
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-02-25· cited 29×
• MacKintosh v. Carter
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-01-31· cited 28×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wyman v. Wallace
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-07-31· cited 70×
• Fundermann v. Mickelson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-05-06· cited 65×
• Fadgen v. Lenkner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 63×
• Giltner v. Stark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-06-26· cited 55×
• Bearbower v. Merry
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-05-17· cited 40×
• Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields v. Kilkeary
  Ninth Circuit· 1953-08-07· cited 36×
• Morey v. Keller
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1957-09-28· cited 35×
• Niece v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  N.D. Oklahoma· 1968-11-14· cited 22×
• Felsenthal v. McMillan
  Texas Supreme Court· 1973-03-28· cited 22×
• Estate of Assmus
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1977-05-26· cited 19×
• Pearsall v. Colgan
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1956-05-01· cited 17×
• Ohlhausen v. Brown
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1979-06-12· cited 13×
• Logan v. Davidson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1968-06-06· cited 9×
• American Technical MacHinery Corp. v. Masterpiece Enterprises, Inc.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1964-09-17· cited 8×
• Printup v. Kenner
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1920-12-22· cited 8×
• Bing v. General Motors Acceptance Corporation
  E.D. South Carolina· 1965-02-02· cited 4×
• Boyd v. Strickland
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1931-07-20· cited 2×