McLeod v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Whitmyer Bros., Inc. v. DOYLE (1971), Rector-Phillips-Morse, Inc. v. Vroman (1973)
36 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 Bloom v. Home Insurance Agency · Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Murrell · Witmer v. Arkansas Dailies, Inc. · American Excelsior Laundry Company v. Derrisseaux · Wakenight v. Spear & Rogers
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The knowledge of how to bid for a job ... would hardly seem to come under the classification of `secret formulas'”
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.