McGee v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. (1981), 29 Cal. 2d 34 - Speegle v. Board of Fire Underwriters (1946)
4 federal appellate · 64 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 Gill v. City of Lake Charles · Duquesne Distributing Co. v. Greenbaum · Davidson v. Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. · Lewis v. Huie-Hodge Lumber Co. · Orr v. Home Mutual Insurance
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this connection it may be stated as an accepted rule of law and jurisprudence that two or more persons cannot be grouped together and joined in one suit either as plaintiffs or defendants, where there is no privity of contract or mutuality of interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copellar v. Britt““A communication made in good faith, upon any subject matter in which the party has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, either legal, moral or social, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty is qualifiedly privileged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oakes v. Walther“[t]here was certainly nothing objectionable in this warning and advice.”
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.