McClure v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Cook v. Bevill (1969), Tarr v. Tarr (1945)
39 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 Burns v. Burns · Turney v. State · Reed v. Reed · Burk v. Burk · State v. Way
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a statute meant sexual intercourse, using the popular, rather than the literal or derivative, meaning of the word. Resort to a standard, often used dictionary, Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d. Edition, Unabridged, reveals this definition: b. Specif., in female mammals, a canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice of the genital canal, or to the cloaca. Webster's Third New International Dictionary has substantially the same definition, but omits”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hice v. State
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.