McCormick v. . Proctor’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 41 N.C. App. 1 - English v. Holden Beach Realty Corp. (1979), O'Bar v. Pinion (1991)
35 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equity may nevertheless be invoked as an exception to those principles and may operate to 'interfere, even to prevent criminal prosecutions, when this is necessary to protect effectually property rights and to prevent irremediable injuries to the rights of persons.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Chapter 158, Public Laws 1939, expressly prohibits certain types of slot machines and permits other types of slot machines as lawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Abbott
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.