McClain v. Ortmayer’s Empirical Analysis
33 F. 284 · 1888
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1941
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 Roberts v. Ryer
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. As attachments to a sweat or other horse-collar pad, the elastic springs s s, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. Ortmayer
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.