McCain v. City of Des Moines’s Empirical Analysis
174 U.S. 168 · 1899
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1950 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Maryland v. Soper (1926)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Starin v. Mayor Etc of the City of New York Independent Steam-Boat Co · New Orleans v. Benjamin · Shreveport v. Cole · People v. Maynard
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts alleged must show the nature of the suit, and it must plainly appear that it arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States; that is, there must be a real and substantial dispute as to the effect or construction of the Constitution or of some law of the United States, upon the determination of which the recovery depends.””
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.