Philpin v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1957
2 federal appellate · 15 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Board of Supervisors of Schuyler County v. People ex rel. Rock Island & Alton Railroad · Brandon v. State · Clinton Township v. Draper
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No bill shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and no law shall be revived or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived, or the section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed.” (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 134.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thomas
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.