McNelley v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1970 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 231 - People Ex Rel. Terry v. Fisher (1957), 97 So. 2d 693 - Brooks v. Owens (1957)
7 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Jeppesen v. Swanson · Maddox v. Grauman · Butler v. United Mine Workers of America International Union, District No. 2 · Orgel v. McCurdy
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The circumstances may be such in a particular case as would make such information relevant. If the defendant is insolvent so that pro-ration of insurance may become an issue among various claimants, the question of insurance would become material. This was apparently the situation in the case of Brackett v. Woodall Food Products, supra [D.C., 12 F.R.D. 4 ]. But it is well settled that testimony of insurance coverage, or lack of coverage, is not competent in a trial on the merits.” p. 361”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Stender
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.