McDavid v. McDavid’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2014
24 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 Johnson v. Johnson · Talley v. South Carolina Higher Education Tuition Grants Committee · Smith v. Smith · Smith v. Smith · Ebert v. Ebert
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In accordance with [other jurisdictions], we hold poor business decisions, in and of themselves, do not warrant a finding of marital “misconduct,” and that there must be some evidence of willful misconduct, bad faith, intention to dissipate marital assets, or the like, before a court may alter the equitable distribution award for such misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deidun v. Deidun
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.