McClung v. Folks’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Rook v. Rook (1987), Jones v. Willard (1983)
24 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Marshall v. Holmes · Pico v. Cohn · Barsa v. Kator · McClung v. Folkes
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`purposely keeping [the unsuccessful party] in ignorance of the suit.... In all such instances the unsuccessful party is really prevented, by the fraudulent contrivance of his adversary, from having a trial .. '”
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.