McCoy v. Handlin’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably United States v. Will (1980), Atkins v. United States (1977)
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · Oakley v. . Aspinwall · State ex rel. Barnard v. Board of Education · Pearce v. Atwood
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.
“`That whenever a judge of the Supreme Court whose legal residence shall be at some place other than the state capital shall have changed his place of actual residence to the capital, there shall be paid to such judge in consideration of expenses incident to removal to the capital, the increased expenses of living at a place other than his legal residence, the expenses of traveling to and from such legal residence the fixed sum of fifty dollars for each month, payable upon the certified vouchers of such judge filed in the office of the state auditor.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The judges of the supreme court . . . shall each receive such salary as may be provided by law, consistent with this Constitution, and no such judge shall receive any compensation, perquisite or emoluments for or on account of his office in any form whatever, except such salary: . . ” (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is certainly a novel and a startling proposition that, under the constitution vesting the judicial powers of the state in her courts, an ... executive officer has the right and power to disregard the plain provisions of a statute and refuse to perform a purely ministerial act required of him thereunder, thus depriving another of a property right conferred by such statute .... (emphasis original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brendtro v. Nelson
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.