United States v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 81 · 1896
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Rangolan v. The County of Nassau (2004), United States v. Brandenburgh (1945)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Tanner · United States v. Erwin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily impl[ying] something in the nature of an act or proceeding adverse to the party served, or of a notice to him”
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.