Marsh v. McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 709 · 1881
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1973 · most notably Dushane v. Benedict (1887), Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co. (1887)
22 federal appellate · 17 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 Benjamin v. Hillard
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a rule of law, without exception so far as we are aware, that any circumstance, otherwise competent in evidence to reduce the damages, may be proven on the trial for that purpose, although it may not have come into existence until after the commencement of the action.” Marsh v. McPherson, 105 U.S. 709 , 26 L.Ed. 1139, 1141 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pihakis v. Cottrell
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.