McGhee v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Kansas City v. J. I. Case Threshing MacHine Co. (1935), State Ex Rel. Sturdivant Bank v. Little River Drainage District (1934)
34 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 Norwood v. Baker · French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · Spencer v. Merchant · Fallbrook Irrigation Dist v. Bradley · Mortimer Webster v. City of Fargo
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general sewer system of the city shall be divided into four classes, to-wit: Public, district, joint district and private sewers. The city may, by ordinance, find and' determine the class to which any sewer belongs, and the finding and determination of the city in that respect Shall be final and conclusive.””
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.