State v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2016
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Franks v. Smith · Henry v. State · State ex rel. Stubbs v. Dawson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In [the area of Mississippi known as the Gold Coast] for some time, and in numerous places, intoxicating liquors have been openly displayed and sold in the manner as if in licensed saloons, and gambling in its most vicious forms has been carried on. The salient facts with reference to the general situation in the area in question, have persisted for such a considerable length of time; have been of such glaring notoriety and have aroused such general public interest; have been the subject of such extensive public comment both in the daily and weekly press and of common conversation throughout the state; have been so open and flagrant and without dispute anywhere that the court may notice as a matter of current history the import of said facts, when taken in connection with the evidence before us dealing with those facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ithin the limits of the power conferred upon him by the Constitution and the laws, the Governor is not subject to control by the courts nor, as already mentioned, can any mandamus, prohibition, or injunction direct or restrain him in the exercise of his power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o writ of injunction or mandamus or other judicial remedial writ will run against the Governor. . . .”
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.