Mckay v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Albers v. Nelson (1991), Weiner v. Wilshire Oil Co. (1964)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 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 Arensman v. Kitch · Riffel v. Dieter · Setchell v. Reed
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . when preliminary negotiations lead to the signing of a written contract, such negotiations are merged into the written document from which the terms of the contract are to be determined. . . .” (p. 659.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in this case ... the appellant does not plead that the written instruments should be set aside on the ground that he was induced to sign them by fraudulent representations as to their content”
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.