McBee v. McBee’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1984
15 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 Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp · Nelson v. Brown · Pritchett v. Wade · Vinson v. Vinson · Lewis v. Davis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] conveyance of land by the husband, executed in contemplation of marriage, without the knowledge of his intended wife, and intended to prevent her rights of dower and homestead from attaching to his lands, is a fraud upon the rights of the wife on marriage, against which a court of equity will grant relief. Dorrough v. Grove, 257 Ala. 609 , 60 So.2d 342 ; Anderson v. Lewter, 232 Ala. 375 , 168 So. 171 ; Sibley v. Kennedy, 224 Ala. 354 , 140 So. 552 ; Lewis v. Davis, 198 Ala. 81 , 73 So. 419 ; Cannon v. Birmingham Trust & Savings Co., 194 Ala. 469 , 69 So. 934 ; Nelson v. Brown, 164 Ala. 397 , 51 So. 360 ; Kelly v. McGrath, 70 Ala. 75 ; 28 C.J.S., Dower, § 58 pages 129-131; 17 Am.Jur., Section 107, page 764.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haynie v. Byrd
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.