MacKey v. MacKey’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2015
9 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 Francis v. Francis · Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Preis · Reagan County Purchasing Co. v. State · Klise v. Klise · Republic National Bank of Dallas v. Beaird
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to enforce an alimony provision, it must have its genesis in a contractual agreement between the parties separate from any decrees or orders which issue from a court. We see no reason why a “separate contractual agreement between the spouses” must be in written form before entry of the decree. There is no reason why the decree itself cannot operate as the written manifestation of the parties’ agreement. A consent de cree is a contract in addition to an adjudication, and it may stand as a contract even if it falls as an adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rousseau v. Sprecher
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.