Melvin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District (1961), Miller v. Robertson (1924)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Gibbons v. United States · Railroad Company v. Tennessee · Chapman v. State · Dunsmoor v. Furstenfeldt · Railroad Company v. Alabama
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘debt,’ however, has a much broader popular significance than the foregoing technical definition, and includes that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.