McKellips v. MacKintosh’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2010
6 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 Bottum v. Herr · Hunt v. Hunt · Schnabel v. Taft Broadcasting Company, Inc. · Schurr v. Weaver · State Ex Rel. Meierhenry v. Spiegel, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maintenance is ... "an officious intermed-dling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it;” Champerty, a form of maintenance, involves an agreement under "which a person who has no interest in the suit of another undertakes to maintain or support it at his own expense in exchange for part of the litigated matter in event of a successful conclusion of the cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an officious intermed-dling in a suit that in no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it;” Champerty, a form of maintenance, involves an agreement under”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A contract provision contrary to an express provision of law or to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited or otherwise contrary to good morals, is unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Currey v. Currey
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.