Magee v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1950
13 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It [the law] declares that he [the father] shall support his children, because every man is under obligation to provide for those descended from his loins.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milburn v. Milburn · Gully v. Gully
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.