MacKellar v. . Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 1962 · most notably Di Menna v. . Cooper Evans Co. (1917), Lumbermens Mut. Casualty Co. v. Timms & Howard, Inc. (1939)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Wheelock v. . Lee · Davison v. . Associates of the Jersey Company
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.
““ Where the defendant interposes a counterclaim, and thereupon demands an affirmative judgment against the plaintiff, the mode of trial of an issue of fact, arising thereupon, is the ■same, as if it arose in an action, brought by the defendant, against the plaintiff, for the cause of action stated in the counterclaim, and demanding the same judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“section 968 of the Code, * * * the complaint demanding judgment other than for a sum of money. It is conferred by statute (§974) and so is”
1 later decision 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.