Mayhew v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1960
4 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 104 N.J. Eq. 607 - Thomas v. Thomas · Stern v. Stern · Spielmann v. Kliest
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of this state is entirely too well settled to require the citation of any authorities, that an agreement by a husband to support his wife will be enforced in a suit in the court of equity for specific performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cohen v. Cohen
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.