McClure v. Topf’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1970 · most notably Bush v. Martineau (1927), Sims v. Ahrens (1925)
34 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Crowley v. Christensen · Giozza v. Tiernan · Carl Eberle v. People of the State of Michigan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not to be doubted that the legislature has the power to make the written laws of the state unless it is expressly, or by necessary implication, prohibited from so doing by the Constitution, and the act assailed must be plainly at variance with the Constitution before the court will so declare it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borchert v. Scott
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.