McCluskey v. . Cromwell’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1915)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hire is to engage in service for a stipulated reward; as to hire a servant for a year, or laborers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary service for wages.” McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 N. Y. 593 .”
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.