McCarthy v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1977
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Pelton v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · East v. Pace · Eldridge v. Hoefer · Northrup v. McGill · 219 Mo. App. 419 - Michael-Swanson-Brady Produce Co. v. Oregon Short Line Railroad
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears to be a case wherein the zeal of the credit manager greatly exceeded his judgment. “Having held that there is evidence showing actual damages, it remains to be determined whether the finding of the jury as to punitive damages can be sustained. ⅜ ⅝ ij< # ⅜ * “The jury was not obliged to believe that he acted in good faith and that the trespass thus committed was merely the result of inadvertence and poor judgment. Reasonable argument could be made that Young showed an utter disregard for the rights of the plaintiff. «* * *»”
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.