McLaughlin v. Poucher’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Kuehne v. Town Council (1950), City of Norwalk v. Daniele (1955)
37 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 Downes v. Bidwell · Geofroy v. Riggs · Metropolitan Co v. District of Columbia · Talbott v. Board of County Commissioners of Silver Bow County · Yale University v. Town of New Haven
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incorporated or organized under the laws of this state or of any state whose laws provide (reciprocal treatment).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a body of people occupying a definite territory and politically organized under one government”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“implies an allowance for some degree of difference,”
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.