Myrick v. Myrick’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Stephens v. Arkansas School for the Blind (2000), McWhorter v. McWhorter (2001)
82 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 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing v. Baker · Travis v. State · Burns v. Burns · 60 Ark. App. 27 - Jennings v. Burford · ERC Contractor Yard & Sales v. Robertson
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the simple existence of a dominant party in the relationship does not, in and of itself, invoke the presumption of invalidity; rather, the party claiming duress or coercion must establish further sufficient evidence to invoke the presumption, after which the burden to prove otherwise rests with the dominant party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chism v. Chism
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.