Mangels v. Mangels’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1951
8 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 Waters v. Waters · Le Barron v. Le Barron · Purcell v. Purcell · People v. McGinnis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If the husband is plaintiff, and cannot furnish his wife with the •means of defending his suit, he is not entitled to a decree. . . The court that makes the order can modify it during the pendency of the cause, if sufficient reasons appear for doing so. .”
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.