McMurdo v. Getter’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Kelley v. Rossi (1985), Lowell Bar Ass'n v. Loeb (1943)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · William Truax v. Mike Raich · New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann · Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners · Frost v. Corporation Commission
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recognizes the necessity of immediate and unbroken relationship between a professional man and those who engage his services.”
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.