MacDonald v. Trammell’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Clements v. Withers (1969), Ucc v. Jb Haralson
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Delawter v. Delawter · Williams v. Williams · Yarber v. Iglehart · Davis v. Freeman · Nelson Ex Rel. Nelson v. Melvin
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the mutual marital rights and obligations is the right of one spouse to the society, comfort, affection and assistance of the other.”); Rylee v. Rylee, 244 S.W.2d 717, 718 (Tex.Civ.App.— El Paso 1951, no writ) (”
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.