McLaughlin v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1937 · most notably Henderson Tire & Rubber Co. v. Gregory (1926), Sullivan v. Ross' Estate (1898)
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Mallory v. . Gillett · Morris v. . Rexford · Leonard v. Vredenburgh · Thompson v. Howard · Sanger v. Wood
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a difference between an election of remedies and a mistake of remedy, and the law has not gone so far as to deprive parties of meritorious claims merely because of attempts to collect them by inappropriate actions, upon which recovery could not be had.””
2 later decisions 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.