MaCleod v. Fernandez’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.2d 20 · 1938
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Garrott v. United States (1965), Muzquiz v. City of San Antonio (1975)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 737
Relies on Dodge v. Board of Education · Pennie v. Reis · City of Dallas v. Trammell · State ex rel. Risch v. Board of Trustees of the Policemen's Pension Fund · Raines v. Board of Trustees Pen. Fund
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The concept embodied in the word pension has developed far beyond the original idea of a bounty or gratuity, ‘springing from the appreciation and graciousness of the sovereign,’ granted in recognition of meritorious past services. One has but to examine the statutes of our own State * * * to appreciate the extent of the .development. Necessarily there has come with that development changed theories relating to the nature of the rights and obligations under pension statutes both of civil servants and of the government. In an attempt at legal classification of the relation, the courts have come to widely varying results. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.