MacKey v. MacKey’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Baker v. City of Kansas City · Lick Creek Sewer Systems, Inc. v. Bank of Bourbon · Johnston v. Norrell Health Care, Inc. · Papineau v. Baier · Garrity v. A.I. Processors
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) two or more persons, (2) an object to .be accomplished, (3) a meeting of the minds on the object or course of action, (4) one or more unlawful overt acts, and (5) resulting damages. The essence of a civil conspiracy is an unlawful act agreed upon by two or more persons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.