McCarthy v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Hoffman v. Palmer (1942), United States v. Price (1961)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Smith v. . Rentz · Terry v. . Jewett · Edison Electric Light Co. v. United States Electric Lighting Co. · Briggs v. . N.Y.C. and H.R.R.R. Co. · Carradine v. . Hotchkiss
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the Rules of Civil Procedure were designed to permit liberal examination and discovery; they were not intended to be made the vehicle through which one litigant could make use of his opponent’s preparation of his case. To use them in such a manner would penalize the diligent and place a premium on laziness.”
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.