McFadden v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Fisher v. Dye (1956), Sheppard v. Atlantic States Gas Co. of Pennsylvania, Inc. (1948)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Kaczorowski v. Kalkosinski · Gaydos v. Domabyl · Howard v. Bell Telephone Co. · Marsh v. Western New York & Pennsylvania Railway Co. · 17 Tenn. App. 1 - Koontz v. Fleming
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.
““The statute, which enumerated the persons entitled to sue, appointed them- to represent the family. The plaintiff does not sue for himself alone but as a representative or trustee for. those beneficially entitled.” - ■”
1 later decision 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.