McClellan v. Carland’s Empirical Analysis
217 U.S. 268 · 1910
Citation profile
632 federal appellate · 201 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,444 later decisions (103 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983), Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976)
632 federal appellate · 201 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · United States v. Lee · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co.
Cited together with Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Younger v. Harris · Kerotest Mfg Co v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America
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 1,444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the pendency of an action in the state court is no bar to proceedings concerning the same matter in the Federal court having jurisdiction.'”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[w]e think it the true rule that where a case is within the appellate jurisdiction of a higher court a writ ... may issue in aid of the appellate jurisdiction which might otherwise be defeated....'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Repeated decisions of this Court have established the rule . . . that the writ will lie in a proper case to direct a subordinate Federal court to decide a pending cause,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.