Maust v. Maust’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Loth v. Loth (1949), Marriage of Janssen v. Janssen (1983)
28 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 Gauger v. Gauger · Longbotham v. Longbotham · Meiners v. Kennedy · Marquardt v. Hubner · Service & Security, Inc. v. St. Paul Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a rule of strict construction is applied to a statute in derogation of the common law, it should nevertheless be construed sensibly and in harmony with the purpose of the statute, so as to advance and render effective such purpose and the intention of the legislature. The strict construction should not be pushed to the extent of nullifying the beneficial purpose of the statute, or lessening the scope plainly intended to be given thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swanson v. Brewster
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.