McKinster v. Sager’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably Liberty Warehouse Co. v. Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Ass'n (1928), Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough (1907)
1 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · United States v. Cruikshank · Barbier v. Connolly · Dent v. State of West Virginia
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.
““Why then should the class of creditors described in the statute have an equity to take all, as against the various employees engaged in transacting the business, as against the owner of the building so used, or even as against those who have supplied the creature needs of the merchant and his family while he was engaged in the prosecution of the business ? Suppose that, in point of fact, the amount realized by a merchant on a sale of goods purchased by him on credit could be shown to have been used by him in the purchase of groceries for his family, and that during some other portion of the time of his business endeavor he had incurred a debt in supplying his family with necessary groceries; can any reason be suggested why, as to the stock on hand .at the time of the sale in bulk, the wholesaler should be entitled to his pay in full as against the grocer, when neither of them contributed to the stock as it was at the time of the failure?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming that the power to violate and disregard [the rights of personal liberty and private property] — a power so repugnant to the common principles of justice and civil liberty — lurked under any general grant of legislative authority, or ought to be implied from any general expressions of the will of the people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"But it is noi the business of the state to make discriminations in Livor of one class against another, or in favor of one employment against, another. The state can have no favorites. Its business is to protect ihe industry of ail. and to give all the benefit of equal laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larabee v. Dolley
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.