McCormack v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1978
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Jefferis v. East Omaha Land Co. · County of St. Clair v. Lovingston · Cooley v. Golden · Benson v. Morrow · Wallace v. Driver
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether a riparian owner has title to land in controversy by accretion, the length of time in which it is in course of formation is not of importance. If it is formed by a gradual, imperceptible deposit of alluvion, it is accretion, but, if the streám changes its course suddenly, and in such manner as not to destroy the integrity of the land in controversy and so that the land can be identified, it is not accretion, and the boundary line remains as before the change of the channel.” McCormack v. Miller, 239 Mo. 463 , 144 S. W. 101 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yutterman v. Grier
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.