McIndoe v. Morman’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Gates v. McLean (1886), Oconto Co. v. Bacon (1923)
27 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Mack v. . Patchin · Wiley v. Howard · Hughes v. State · Taft v. Kessel · Worthington v. Curd & Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all such cases the court may so shape and control its proceedings as to prevent injustice, and compel either party to do that which is equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. McCrie
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.