Meguire v. Corwine’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 108 · 1879
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2003 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Oscanyan v. Arms Co. (1880)
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Alexander Marshall v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company · Tool Company v. Norris · Barth v. Clise · Michigan Bank v. Eldred
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Frauds of the class to which the one disclosed belongs are an unmixed evil. Whether forbidden by a statute, or condemned by public policy, the result is the same. No legal right can spring from sucha source.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A judge has no right to submit a question where the state of the evidence forbids it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But tliey are blended and confused with those which are forbidden. The whole is a unit and indivisible. That which is bad destroys that which is good and they perish together.””
2 later decisions 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.