McGovern v. Eckhart’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 177 So. 2d 1 - Strazzulla v. Hendrick (1965), Reamer's Estate (1938)
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Rosewell Messinger v. Peter Anderson · Thompson v. Maxwell Landgrant Railway Co · Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · People of the State of Illinois George Hunt v. Illinois Central Railroad Company · Great Western Tel Co v. Burnham
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cogent, substantial, and proper reasons,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not deny to litigants or ourselves the right and duty of correcting an error merely because of what we may be later convinced was merely our ipse dixit in a prior ruling in the same case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stuart“[I]t is within the power of the courts to disregard the rule of `law of the case' in the interests of justice.”
1 later decision 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.