McCoy v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1965 · most notably Sayre's v. Harpold (1890), 150 W. Va. 96 - Lane v. Williams (1965)
35 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 Haymond v. Camden · Western M. & M. Co. v. Virginia Cannel Coal Co. · Corrothers v. Sargent · Renick v. Ludington · Tracey v. Shumate
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it appear by the record, that the point in controversy was necessarily decided in the first suit, whether upon demurrer or the facts in issue, it can not be again considered in any subsequent suit between any of the parties or their privies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. Green
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.