McCloskey v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
252 U.S. 107 · 1920
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Farrington v. Tokushige (1927)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Peck v. Heurich · Le Roy Brazee v. People of the State of Michigan · Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. v. Wisconsin ex rel. City of Milwaukee
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evil against which the regulation is directed is one from which the English law has long sought to protect the community through proceedings for barratry and champerty. * * * Regulation which aims to bring the conduct of the business into harmony with ethical practice of the legal profession, to which it is necessarily related is obviously reasonable. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larson v. Lesser
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.