McFarlane v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1972
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Schmucker v. Sibert · Atlantic Dock Co. v. . Leavitt · Dixon v. Niccolls · Kershaw v. Kershaw
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The taxes were to be paid when due, and this is fixed by law. They must be paid so as to avoid a sale of the property for their non-payment, or the enforcement of any personal liability against the lessor on account thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hastings v. Bigaro
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.