McGarty v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Pino v. Nicolls (1954), Ex parte Farrell (1951)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Betts v. Brady · Bute v. People of State of Illinois · Peterson v. Hopson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the single justice could have granted the writ, which we need not decide, his refusal to grant it was at least within the limits of a sound and reasonable judicial discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGarty v. O'Brien“does not commonly reconsider on a later appeal a matter previously decided on an earlier appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGarty v. O'Brien“decided the point against him upon grounds which it deemed sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGarty v. O'Brien
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.