McDade v. McDade’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1986
5 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 Schneider v. Rabb
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As will be observed, there is a distinction between the annulment of the marriage relation for antenuptial causes and a “divorce” for postnuptial causes. In the former, the marriage is declared to have been voidable or void from the beginning. In the latter the marriage, valid from the beginning, is declared terminated for the subsequent misconduct of one of the parties....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bruni v. State
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.