McGehee v. McGehee’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Askew v. Askew (1997), 604 So. 2d 726 - Kelso v. McGowan (1992)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Miller v. Bank of Holly Springs · Martin v. Dixie Planing Mill · Jones v. Jones · Smaller War Plants Corp. v. Queen City Lumber Co.
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.
“[i]t is never duress to threaten to do that which a party has a legal right to do....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.