McColl v. Pataky’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Plouffe v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1971), 2830 Whitney Avenue Corp. v. Heritage Canal Development Associates, Inc. (1994)
47 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 Dorazio v. M. B. Foster Electric Co. · Dowling v. Kielak · Rathkopf v. Pearson · Watson v. Howard · Kasowitz v. Mutual Construction 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In passing on a motion for summary judgment, the trial court is to determine whether an issue of fact exists but may not try that issue if it does exist.”
6 later decisions 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.