McGregor v. . Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1949
1 federal appellate · 13 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.
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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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe fact that the defendant’s attorney was not retained by the defendant in the suit, but by the real party in interest, cannot defeat the lien of the attorney upon the judgment. The acquiescence of the nominal defendant in the conduct of the suit by the attorney, for the benefit of the party in interest, would preclude him from insisting that the lien did not exist, and the opposite party in the action has no right to question it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.