Fox v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Ball v. Jones (1961), Morgan County Commission v. Powell (1974)
48 state decisions — followed in 16 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 People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · State ex rel. Hovey v. Noble · Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of Police · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Provines · People Ex Rel. Brown v. Woodruff
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person, or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted,”
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.