McCrary v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1999
15 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 Mann v. Glastonbury Knitting Co. · State ex rel. Duluth Brewing & Malting Co. v. District Court · Zappala v. Industrial Insurance Commission · Parson v. Murphy · Beaudry v. Watkins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This provision for penalty was placed in the statute evidently with the object, not only to induce prompt payments after the award has been finally established, but, in case the award is contested, to compel prompt action on the part of the defendant in making his defense, and to defeat frivolous delays and chronic procrastinations often occurring in the course of legal proceedings; and, when any of these conditions are found to exist, the penalty should be promptly imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.