McCarthy v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Hurley v. Boston Railroad Holding Co. (1944), 475 F. Supp. 973 - Anderson Foreign Motors, Inc. v. New England Toyota Distributor, Inc. (1979)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 Stockbridge v. Mixer · Rioux v. Cronin · Snyder v. Smith · Travelers Insurance v. Maguire · Thacher v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have original and concurrent jurisdiction in equity of the following cases: * * * “(7) Creditors’ Bills — Suits by creditors to reach and apply, in payment of a debt, any property, right, title or interest, legal or equitable, of a debtor, within or without the commonwealth, which cannot be reached to be attached or taken on execution in an action at law, * *”
3 later decisions 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.