Carey v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1977
2 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · Hill v. Winsor · Page v. Trufant · Hunt v. Jones · Brown v. Browning
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some contracts of separation might offend public policy and others not. Certainly there are cases where a wife would be justified in separating from her husband and asking support from him, notwithstanding the separation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JONES v. JONES.
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.