Edwards v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1990
4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is, Did the law confer upon the children the right asserted; and if so, was it absolute, or dependent entirely upon the life of their mother? It is clear that the law conferred the right. It is equally clear that when, in consequence of her death, she could not assert the right for them, the guardian might do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“gives to the widow and children of a deceased person, a clear right to one year's support out of his estate. It gives no greater right to the widow, than it gives to the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.