Machado v. Machado’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Nienow v. Nienow (1977), McLaughlin v. McLaughlin (1964)
33 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 Pelzer v. Ragsdale · Ex Parte Robinson · Hertzog v. Spartanburg Bonded Warehouses, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The amount was within the judicial discretion of the court, and, in fixing that amount, the trial court could proceed upon its own knowledge of the value of the * * * services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacHado v. MacHado
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.