McCarthy v. Sink’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1965
15 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 Kansas City Title & Trust Co. v. Fourth National Bank · Muckenthaler v. Noller · Kunze v. Kunze · Allen v. Turner · Wyatt v. Collins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the cases where the rule stated was applied, the defensive matter was connected with and grew out of the same transaction or matter which formed the basis of the plaintiff’s claim.” (1. c. 671.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malcolm v. Larson““When a right of action is barred by the provisions of any statute, it shall be unavailable either as a cause of action or ground of defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Flora
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.