McCall v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Burr v. Singh (1951), Kickham v. Carter (1958)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Elkin v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Smith v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Branson v. Abernathy Furniture Co. · Womack v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Mayfield v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff was not bound by the engineer's testimony, in so far as it was contradicted by evidence of other witnesses. The jury was at liberty to believe part of the engineer's testimony and disbelieve any part that conflicted with plaintiff's other evidence.”
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.