McCall v. Webb.’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1975
3 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 Piedmont Wagon Co. v. Byrd · Glenn v. . Wray · Swain v. . McRae · Pearson v. . Carr · Williams v. . Clouse
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If judgment be rendered upon the right of the person so alleged to be entitled, in favor of such person, he may recover by action the damages which he shall have sustained by reason of the usurpation by the defendant of the office,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Howerton v. . Tate
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.