McWilliams v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1966
14 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 Kastner v. Kastner · Gavette v. Gavette
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The stipulation and property settlement having been approved by the court, but the terms thereof not having been set forth in the decree of divorce, the rights of the parties rest upon the contract and not upon the decree, and are contractual and not decreed rights and obligations.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mere reference to and approval of the `property and financial settlement,' contained in the findings of fact and conclusions of law and the final decree of the court, did not operate to make the independent contract of the parties a part of, and enforceable as, a preliminary on [or] final decree of court. There was, therefore, no court order with reference to temporary or permanent alimony, or support money * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Goodbar
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.