McCants v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1954 · most notably Vickers v. Philip Carey Co. (1915), Eisminger v. Beman (1912)
29 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 Merrill v. Ithaca & Owego Rail Road · McLeod v. Shelly Manufacturing & Improvement Co. · Hoskins v. Hight · Simpson v. Golden · Moore v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first duty of a party, surprised at the trial, upon the discovery of a mistake that will prejudice his interest, is to take proper legal steps to continue or delay the cause. He cannot neglect this duty in the hope of securing a verdict in spite of such surprise and then ol-tain a new trial. Shipp v. Suggett, 9 B. Mon. (48 Ky.) 5; Simpson v. Golden, 114 Ala. 336 , 21 South. 990 ; Hoskins v. Hight, 95 Ala. 284 , 11 South. 253 , and authorities therein cited. The defendant, having failed to comply with this rule, is not entitled to a new trial on such ground.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herring v. Hood
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.