Gary v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2004
2 federal appellate · 5 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 National Oil & Pipe Line Co. v. Teel · Wheelock v. Cavitt · Stallings v. Hullum · Cole v. Bammel · McEntire v. Thomason
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A unilateral contract is valid if supported by an independent consideration, but the testimony of plaintiffs is that the independent consideration of $1 cash recited in this lease was not in fact paid....”
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.