McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 178 · 1936
Citation profile
1,342 federal appellate · 1,234 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,710 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (1994), Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
1,342 federal appellate · 1,234 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Healy Nh v. Ratta · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Gilbert v. David · Barry v. Edmunds
Cited together with St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press · Gibbs v. Buck · International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Scheuer v. Rhodes
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 7,710 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If his allegations of jurisdictional facts are challenged by his adversary in any appropriate manner, he must support them by competent proof. And where they are not so challenged the court may still insist that the jurisdictional facts be established or the case be dismissed, and for that purpose the court may demand that the party alleging jurisdiction justify his allegations by a preponderance of evidence.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000 exclusive of interests and costs.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be measured by the loss, if any, which would follow the enforcement of the rules prescribed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.