McCannon v. McCannon’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1991
21 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 The Berry Will Case · Salinas v. Garcia · Rice v. Rice · Von De Veld v. Judy · Turner v. Anderson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the strongest and best proof that can arise as to a lucid interval is that which arises from the act itself; that I look upon as the thing to be first examined, and if it can be proved and established that it is a rational act rationally done the whole case is proved * * * Here is the rational act rationally done. In my apprehension, where you are able completely to establish that, the law does not require you to go further, * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Radkey · Smith v. Welch
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.