McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 79 · 1916
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 35 district · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions (70 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Patterson v. New York (1977), Leary v. United States (1969)
76 federal appellate · 35 district · 122 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · American Sugar Refining Co. v. McFarland
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t is not within the province of a legislature to declare an individual guilty or presumptively guilty of a crime.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is ‘essential that there shall be some rational connection between tbe faet proved and tbe ultimate fact presumed, and that tbe inference of one fact from proof of another shall not be so unreasonable as to be a purely arbitrary mandate.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we suppose that no one would contend that the plaintiff was given the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snowden v. Hughes
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.