McShane v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1940
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Harris v. Balk · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Deer · Harvey v. Great Northern Ry. Co. · Goodwin v. Claytor · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Nash
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor is it material that plaintiff is a nonresident of this state. He had an undoubted right to bring his action in the courts of this state, under the clause of the federal constitution guaranteeing to the citizens of each state all the rights and privileges of citizens of the several states. 1 Shinn, Attach. & Garn. § 76.””
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.