McWilliams v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Friedman v. Jablonski (1976), 23 Kan. App. 2d 812 - Robinson v. Shah (1997)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 McLean v. Clapp · Staab v. Staab · Estate of Bond v. Trent · Cleaves v. Thompson · Bell v. Keepers
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party defrauded in the making of a contract, who discovers the fraud after having partly performed, may continue with performance and also have his action for damages.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Letzig v. Rupert
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.