McMurray v. McMurray’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Montgomery v. Kennedy (1984), Swearingen v. Swearingen (1917)
121 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
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This action was brought by the plaintiff in error on January 31, 1885, in the district court for Live Oak county, to vacate a decree rendered by that court on March 15, 1883, and to recover her share of the community property of which she claimed to have been defrauded through a decree obtained through willfully false evidence given and produced by her husband on the trial of an action for divorce instituted by him. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackman v. Blackman
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.