Mountjoy v. Mountjoy’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2001
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Thompson v. Thompson · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Yellow Cab Co. of D. C., Inc. v. Dreslin · Rommel v. West American Insurance Company
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [Ajppellant urges that the fundamental bases for the doctrine now no longer exist and that there is a definite trend toward adoption of the minority rule eliminating the bar to any tort action between husband and wife. Any change in this long-established doctrine in the District of Columbia should be accomplished by Congressional enactment.” Mountjoy v. Mountjoy, D.C. App., 206 A.2d 733 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mountjoy v. Mountjoy
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.