McLean's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Brookhaven Steam Laundry v. Watts (1952), Dillon's Case (1949)
29 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 Madden's Case · Sponatski's Case · Caswell's Case · Souza's Case · Di Clavio's Case
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employment brought him in contact with the risk that in fact caused his injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rational mind must be able to trace the resultant personal injury to a proximate cause set in motion by the employment and not by some other agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the employee's case does not stand or fall on establishing robbery as a motive.”
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.