MacDonald v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Schantz v. Schantz (1968), 24 Utah 2d 236 - Wiese v. Wiese (1970)
2 district · 42 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 Arnold v. Arnold · Burt v. Burt · Pinion v. Pinion · Alldredge v. Alldredge · Dahlberg v. Dahlberg
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where the defendant’s misconduct is resumed, the law permits the injured party to assert all the prior mis-, conduct, as well as that occurring subsequent to the condonation. (Citing cases.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.