McClain v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 562 So. 2d 1212 - City of Mound Bayou v. Johnson (1990), Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. Watkins (1902)
25 state decisions — followed in 13 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 United States v. Heirs of Boisdoré · Railroad Company v. Grant · Norris v. Crocker · Assessors v. Osbornes · McNulty v. Batty
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limiting appeals to a defined class of cases, and prescribing at what stage and in what court ordinary litigation shall end.”
1 later decision 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.