McCortle v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1912
1 district · 10 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceedings. * * The public, for whom they act, have the right to-their best judgment, after free and full discussion and consultation among themselves of, and upon, the public matters intrusted to them,. ■ in the session provided .for by the statute.” (McCortle v. Bates , 29 Ohio St. 419 .) The records of the board of trustees of the village of Sea Cliff”
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.