Jewell R. Mazique v. Edward C. Mazique’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Dozier v. Ford Motor Co. (1983), Emmett J. Stebbins v. Keystone Insurance Company Emmett J. Stebbins v. Insurance Company of North America (1973)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Burton S. Knapp v. John P. Kinsey · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Melvin v. Melvin · Oxley v. Oxley · Whitaker v. McLean
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the duration of the marriage; the number and age of the children; the age and health of the parties; their respective economic conditions — both present and prospective; the wife’s contribution to the accumulation of the husband’s property; the circumstances under which the divorce was granted; the effect, if any, upon the family; and the interest of society generally to prevent a person, wherever possible, from becoming a public charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Majette v. Majette“When a divorce is granted on the application of the husband, the court may require him to pay alimony to the wife, if it seems just and proper.”
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.