Willson v. McDonnell’s Empirical Analysis
265 F. 432 · 1919
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1943
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Shoemaker v. United States · Callan v. Wilson · Wight v. Davidson · 30 App. D.C. 597 - Bursey v. Lyon
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the history of the Constitution or of the original amendments to justify the assertion that the people of this District may be lawfully deprived óf the benefit of any of the constitutional guaranties of life. liberty, and property.” Callan v. Wilson, 127 U. S. 540 , 550, 8 Sup. Ct. 1301 , 1304 ( 32 L. Ed. 223 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hirsh v. Block““In the present case, for example, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, the government might have checked' and thwarted any tendency on the part" of landlords toward extortion, and, at the same time, have satisfied the due process clause of the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hirsh v. Block
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.