McCarthy v. Eddings’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1987
2 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 Riss & Co. v. Anderson · Arps v. City & County of Denver · City of Longmont v. Swearingen · Dusing v. Nelson · Williams v. Sleepy Hollow Mining Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] release. . . obtained . . . as the result of a mutual basic mistake may be set aside as ineffective, and . . . is not a defense [in an action of tort].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guzman v. Gleason
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.