McCallister v. McCallister’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 1948
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pollock v. . Pollock · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Jones v. Jones · Musselman v. Musselman · Wagner v. Wagner
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the divorce has been granted to her on account of the misconduct of the husband, the rule is, that she should not be placed in a worse condition than if she had survived her husband; otherwise the husband would be permitted to take advantage of Ms own wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Howard
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.