McElyea v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Dishman v. Gary (1962), McFarland v. Connally (1952)
77 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Everything must be presumed in favor of the judgment, which is not concluded by the record.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Even though the plaintiff has taken a nonsuit, his petition may be looked to in aid of the defendant’s cross-action seeking affirmative relief.””
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.