MacDonnell v. Capital Co.’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.2d 311 · 1942
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1997
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · Grubb v. Public Utilities Commission · Fayerweather v. Ritch
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . become relatively unimportant, the rules of evidence relating to admission and exclusion being intended primarily for the purpose of withdrawing from the jury matter which might improperly sway the verdict, and not for the trial judge, who is presumed to act only upon proper evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.