State v. McKeown’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1976
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But supposing the sheriff had taken a bond which was illegal. He had the right to abandon the first and to execute a second one, because his duty was to accept none but a legal bond, and the first being void from its illegality must be considered as not having been taken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doherty v. Patterson
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.