McNabb v. McNabb’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1965 · most notably Blackburn v. Blackburn (1942), Miller v. Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider (1935)
27 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 Eastman v. Eastman · Jones v. Jones · Sheffield v. Sheffield · 63 Tex. Civ. App. 168 - Dawson v. Dawson · McAlister v. McAlister
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in this state, as well as in others, is that parties cannot be divorced for incompatibility, or because they live unhappily together, or merely because they possess unruly tempers, or for marital wranglings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It cannot be doubted that a series of studied vexations, and deliberate insults and provocations would, under our statute, be sufficient ■cause for divorce, without apprehension of personal violence, or bodily hurt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caywood v. Caywood
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.