McSherry v. McSherry’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Wilmot v. Wilmot (1953), Carter v. Carter (1929)
1 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Harkness v. Hyde · Smith v. Woolfolk · Fisher v. Parr · State Ex Rel. Gemundt v. Shipley
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must receive special notice of all proceedings against his interest in the progress of the cause, which he could not know from the ordinary course of practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[T]he defendant could not deprive the Court of its jurisdiction by leaving the State.””
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.