224 Mo. App. 702 - McGinnis v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1997
6 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 McDavitt v. Boyer · Ex Parte Dick Bros. Brewery Co. v. Ellison · Shinglemeyer v. Wright. · Davis v. Starrett · Jones v. Brownlee
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is difficulty in determining in some cases what is relevant or pertinent. In determining the question the courts are liberal, and the privilege embraces anything that may possibly be pertinent. All doubt should be resolved in favor of its relevancy or pertinency. * * * * The matter to which the privilege does not extend must be so palpably wanting in relation to the subject matter that no reasonable man can doubt its irrelevancy.”
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.