McMahan v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1977 · most notably Keokuk Co v. State of Missouri (1894), Shields v. Ohio (1877)
22 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 Wright v. Bundy · Work v. Brayton · McTaggart v. Rose · Ray v. Roe, on the Demise of Brown
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of a consolidation is a dissolution of the corporations previously existing, and at the same instant the creation of a new corporation, with property, liabilities, and stockholders derived from those then passing out of existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winn v. Wabash R.
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.