McGee v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1982
20 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 William v. Beck · Phelps v. Phelps · Andrews v. Andrews · Logan v. Phillips · Jordan v. Clark
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such exemption shall continue after the death of such householder, for the benefit of the husband or wife surviving, so long as he or she continues to occupy such homestead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hafer v. Hafer
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.