MacY v. MacY’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2011
2 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Wetmore v. Markoe · Miller v. Gentry · Tilley 7-85-0031 v. Jessee · Forsdick v. Turgeon · Holliday v. Kline
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any debt ... [not in the nature of alimony or child support] that is incurred in the course of a divorce or separation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gamble v. Gamble
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.