McKee v. Lamon’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 317 · 1895
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2006 · most notably Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co. (1909), United States v. Starr (1987)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 National Bank v. Insurance Co. · Keller v. Ashford · Spofford v. Kirk · Kane v. Bloodgood · Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Hanford
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt of the general proposition that where money is placed in the hands of one person to be delivered to another, a trust arises in favor of the latter, ydiich he may enforce by bill in equity, if not by action at law.””
2 later decisions 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.