People v. McWeeney’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Lopez v. Vanderwater & Howard Wheeler Gamble (1980), Kenyon v. City of Chicopee (1946)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 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 Luther v. Borden · O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · Hake v. People · Rothschild & Co. v. Sons Piano Manufacturing Co. · Christian Hospital v. People ex rel. Murphy
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is well established that the judicial department of the government has no right to interfere with or attempt to control a citizen in the exercise of political rights unless the jurisdiction is expressly given by statute or by clear implication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.