McMillan v. McDill’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1980
21 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 Dan v. Brown · Armstrong v. Farrar · Dudley v. Sumner · 6 Watts & Serg. 431 - Hauberger v. Root
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was incompetent as against the other defendants, and as it could not affect the issue without affecting the other defendants it was in our judgment incompetent to go to the jury on the issue involved. ... If this was a case where a judgment could be rendered against one of the defendants without affecting the rights of the others there might be some ground' for admitting in evidence the declarations as against the defendant who made them; but such is not the case. . . . Testimony which defeats one defendant — one devisee — defeats all, and a judgment against one necessarily defeats all. ... If the admissions here could have gone to the jury and affected the rights of none but the one making them no error would' have been committed, but such is not the case.””
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.