Maryland Casualty Co. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 792 · 1929
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1984 · most notably McGill Incorporated v. John Zink Company, McGill Incorporated, Cross-Appellant v. John Zink Company, Cross-Appellee (1984), White v. United States (1931)
60 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMaryland Casualty Co. v. Jones (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. · Fleischmann Const Co v. United States · City of St Louis v. Western Union Tel Co · Lewellyn v. Electric Reduction Co. · Krauss Bros. Lumber Co. v. Mellon
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with instructions to consider the several assignments of error relating to the' rulings of the trial court in the progress of the trial, and — unless they have been waived— take further proceedings in regard thereto.”
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.