State v. McNamara’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1972
8 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 Doll v. Meador · People v. Coffman · People v. Bearss · Bullard v. Kinney · Inhabitants of Wrentham v. Inhabitants of Attleborough
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However that may be, we are not at liberty to speculate as regards probabilities, where the language of the law is so clear and unambiguous as in the case before us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cannon v. Taylor
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.