McClain v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Coleman v. Coleman (1977), Clavin v. Clavin (1977)
26 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 130 Ohio St. 214 - Holloway v. Holloway · Estes v. Estes · Brown v. Brown · Bateman v. Bateman · Golden v. Golden
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agreement of the parties which was incorporated in and made a part of the divorce decree is enforceable after the majority of each child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Powell
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.