McCary v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1985
18 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 Ussery v. Darrow · Floyd v. Green · Bromberg v. First Nat. Bank of Mobile · Davidson v. Brown · Drummond v. Drummond
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court of equity may refuse relief by applying the doctrine of laches even though the claim be not barred by the statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Multer v. Multer
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.