McCulloch v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 459 So. 2d 836 - Home Indem. Co. v. Anders (1984), McCulloch v. Roberts (1974)
63 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 Nichols v. State · Carter v. Mitchell · Redwine v. Jackson · Ex parte Elyton Land Co. · Sexton v. Sexton
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Ex parte Elyton Land Co., 104 Ala. 88, 91 , 15 So. 939 (1893), this court held that:”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . the spirit of [the Dead Man's Statute] prohibits the testimony . . . when the deceased person's estate, or that of his grantee . . . is interested in the result of the suit." [Emphasis ours.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walling v. Couch“`[t]he essence of the inquiry of abandonment vel non of an easement by the owner is his intention.'”
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.