McCarter v. Lavery’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1983
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 Mills v. Green · Heesch v. Snyder
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts properly decline to express an opinion on a mere abstraction, and may act -on their .own motion in dismissing an appeal involving only an inquiry of that nature.” McCarter v. Lavery, 101 Neb. 748 .”
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.