McClellan v. McCauley’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2018
13 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 Beekman v. Marsters · Block v. Darling · Lyman v. Lyman · Yale Gas Stove Co. v. Wilcox · City of Chicago v. Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.
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.
“This rule is not for the benefit of the parties to a fraudulent transaction, but rests solely on the idea that society must be protected. In the case at bar we shall assume that Griffin [the father-testator] had a wrong motive in desiring so to invest his money as to defeat the recovery of its just dues by the state. Did he consummate the fraud, and confer anything upon Mrs. Brush [his daughter]?”
1 later decision 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.