McDonald v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
184 U.S. 71 · 1902
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Cope v. Anderson (1947), Russell v. Todd (1940)
82 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Richmond v. Irons · Scovill v. Thayer · Hawkins v. Glenn · Matteson v. Dent · George Whitman v. National Bank of Oxford
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all . . . debts ... of such bank to the extent of the. amount of stock owned by them at the. par value thereof. . ; .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. Todd
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.