Lorraine v. McComb’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Hogya v. Superior Court (1977), 32 Cal. 2d 430 - Garrison v. Rourke (1948)
39 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 Brydonjack v. State Bar · 105 Ohio St. 535 - Schario v. State · Falk v. American West Indies Trading Co. · Brooklyn Warehouse & Dry Dock Co. v. West End Dry Dock Co.
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.
“One of the powers which has always been recognized as inherent in courts, which are protected in their existence, their powers and jurisdiction by constitutional provisions, has been the right to control its order of business and to so conduct the same that the rights of all suitors before them might be safeguarded. This power has been recognized as judicial in its nature, and as being a necessary appendage to a court organized to enforce rights and redress wrongs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intent to make the action of the parties compulsory upon the court in each instance.”
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.