McGuire v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 60 · 1952
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1979 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Hoffman v. Halden (1959)
58 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Tenney v. Brandhove · Snowden v. Hughes · Stefanelli v. Minard · Lane v. Wilson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * we disregard, as mere conclusions, the loose and general, the factually unsupported, characterizations of the complained of acts of the defendants, as malicious, conspiratorial, and done for the purpose of depriving plaintiffs of their constitution rights; that the things defendants are alleged to have done, as distinguished from the conclusions of the pleaders with respect to them do not constitute a deprivation of the civil rights of plaintiffs, do not give rise to the cause of action claimed; * * *."”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.