McCarthy v. Kiernan’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2012
4 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 Curtis v. La Grande Hydraulic Water Co. · Shaw v. Proffitt · Stinson v. Hardy · Christensen v. Pacific Coast Borax Co. · Heisley v. Eastman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * In this jurisdiction it is well established that a license is irrevocable when the licensee in good faith and upon reliance of his agreement, makes such valuable and permanent improvements that it would amount to the perpetration of a fraud if the license were revoked.” McCarthy v. Kiernan, 118 Or. 55, 61 ( 245 Pac. 727 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. David v. Brokaw
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.