Holmes v. McColgan’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 54 Cal. 2d 684 - Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (1960), 55 Cal. 2d 553 - Erlich v. Municipal Court of Beverly Hills Judicial District (1961)
78 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 Eisner v. Macomber · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Welch v. Henry · Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka · Stockdale v. The Insurance Companies
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A departure from federal practice ... might easily create myriad administrative difficulties inimical to the interests of both the state and the taxpayers.'”
1 later decision 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.