McMakin v. McMakin’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2009
16 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 Brinkley v. . Brinkley · Coughlin v. Ehlert · Gordon v. Gordon · Owen v. Owen · Roberts v. Stoner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But while this is so, we do not think it applicable in divorce cases, for the reasons given by the supreme court of Illinois, in Gordon v. Gordon [ 141 Ill. 160 ]. Besides this, an action for divorce is triangular — one in which the married parties are plaintiff and defendant, and the public occupies, without being mentioned in the pleadings, the position of third party. The interest of the latter blends with that of various third persons not before the court. Of such, for example, are the children bom, or en ventre sa mere. Since they cannot protect themselves, the public, represented by the court, is under duty to protect them. The justice of the plaintiff’s complaint must be established, not merely between the parties to the record, but as between them and the public, including persons specially interested, yet not before the court;””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bachelor v. Bachelor
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.