McCullough v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2000
16 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 Griffin v. Societe Anonyme la Floridienne · Kennedy v. Kennedy · Kennedy v. Kennedy · Todd v. Betttngen · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Feagin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`We have discovered no case which authorizes such an amendment inconsistent with the allegations of the original bill.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fundamental justice may not be cast upon the reefs of technicality”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“would change the issue, or introduce new issues, or materially vary the grounds of relief * * *,”
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.