Homan v. MacKey’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1971 · most notably Kaufman Construction Co. v. Holcomb (1947), McBride v. Allegheny County Retirement Board (1938)
40 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 Dunlap v. Black · Commonwealth ex rel. Snyder v. Mitchell · Commonwealth ex rel. Century Co. v. City of Philadelphia · Commonwealth ex rel. Hamilton v. Select & Common Councils · Board Trustees Firemen's Pension Fund v. McCrory
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can never be invoked in a doubtful case.”
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.