McDonald v. Cosman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2003
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To conclude otherwise would require parties to mediate a matter totally incidental to the outcome of the substantive issue on appeal without providing a concomitant opportunity to resolve the substantive issue. Such a requirement would be impractical and wasteful of the parties’ time and resources, and would merely delay the ultimate resolution of the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanley v. Lanier
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.