McLane v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1990
10 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 William Brewster v. William Wakefield · Kohler v. Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in case said principal and interest, or either, are not paid when due, and the holder hereof shall have occasion to bring such suit, then we promise to pay the further sum of ten per cent, [sic] upon the whole sum due and unpaid for attorneys’ fees and commissions upon said collection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n all cases where attorneys' fees are provided for in instruments of this character, only a reasonable sum should be allowed. The entire sum stipulated should not be allowed to parties where it would be an exorbitant or unreasonable fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]o pay the further sum of ten per cent, upon the whole sum due and unpaid for attorney's fees....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.