Mays v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Eldridge v. Eldridge (1998), State v. Blades (1993)
78 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 McCrone v. United States · Tobey v. Tobey · Thomas v. Thomas · State v. Luzzi · Burritt Mutual Savings Bank of New Britain v. Tucker
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"indicated that his assets were minimal and that he had no available means of paying the large sum required to discharge his obligation. Nothing in the record warrants an assumption that his financial situation was likely to improve during his imprisonment."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is nothing in the record to indicate that [the defendant] had any resources which could be applied to the payment of [the plaintiff's] expenses in defending the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inability of the defendant to obey an order of the court, without fault on [the obligor's] part, is a good defense to a charge of contempt.”
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.