McDowell v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Dade County v. State of Georgia (1946), Gillen v. Bostick (1975)
35 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 Welborne v. State · Gulf Paving Co. v. City of Atlanta · Maloy v. Maloy · 25 Ga. App. 118 - Tillman v. Groover · O'Callaghan v. Bank of Eastman
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of this court upon its own motion to raise the question of its jurisdiction in all cases in which there may be any doubt as to the existence of such jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillen v. Bostick
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.