McCormick v. Blaine’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Griffin v. County of Cook (1938), Jasperson Ex Rel. Drew v. Jacobson (1947)
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Windsor v. McVeigh · Ross v. Ross · Van Matre v. Sankey · Woodruff v. Taylor
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is conceded — as, indeed, it must be — -that the state has jurisdiction to appoint a conservator of the property of a person domiciled in such state who is absent from the state but who has property within that state. This is on the ground that the state has jurisdiction of the property within its borders.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Smith
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.