McKay v. McKay’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1951
11 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 Gibbons v. Gibbons
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is enough to say that, except in very rare cases, the instincts of motherhood can he relied upon to give to a daughter of tender years a measure of loving care and attention which no other person can equal. The proper place for this little girl is with her mother.” McKay v. McKay, 77 Or. 14 , 149 P. 1032 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baier v. Baier
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.