45 Or. App. 813 - McHenry v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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
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“"promised to 'work and support defendant and to render her services as companion, cook, homemaker, gardener, and housekeeper to him.' In return, [the defendant] 'agreed to write a German textbook or teaching manual and upon reestablishing his professional career, to work and support [the] plaintiff and to render his services as companion, advisor, caretaker and counselor to her.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The parties chose to regulate their lives and affairs by agreement. They had a right to do that, and the contract was enforceable. If the contract was breached by one of the parties, the other party was entitled to seek the relief obtainable at law. Plaintiff's action on the contract was properly brought as an action at law. [ Id. ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contemplated all the burdens and amenities of married life”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.