Magee v. Magee’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1962 · most notably Notten v. Mensing (1935), Lifton v. Harshman (1947)
26 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 Cooper v. Pena · Stanton v. Singleton · Agard v. Valencia · White v. Sage · Stiles v. Cain
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary, however, that the complaint for specific enforcement should declare in the very words of the code that ‘there was an adequate consideration for the contract’ and that it was ‘just and reasonable.’ These allegations standing alone would be objectionable as embodying the mere conclusion of the pleader. The proper mode of pleading is to set forth the facts from which the court may conclude that the contract is supported by an adequate consideration and is, as to the defendant, fair and just. Stiles v. Cain, 134 Cal. 170 [ 66 Pac. 231 ]; White v. Sage, 149 Cal. 613 [ 87 Pac. 193 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolf v. Donahue
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.