MacRae v. MacRae’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1981
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Welder v. Lambert · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Walker · Stiles v. Hawkins · McClintic v. Midland Grocery & Dry Goods Co. · Gulf Production Co. v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The status of property acquired during the marriage is determined by the inception of the title. More accurately speaking, the property is acquired when the title had its inception. This is true because when the title has its inception, a right accrues and this right is property and gives character to its status. Equities may of course arise, but this is another consideration. When the right to the property originates before the marriage or after its dissolution, it is not community.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This right was in the nature of an option. It is clear this right was not a title. Save as above stated, his right in and to the land was terminated by such forfeiture.””
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.