McComb v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Counts v. Thompson (1949), Wood v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1952)
60 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 Cummins v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Sutter v. Easterly · Baysinger v. Hanser · Goldschmidt v. Pevely Dairy Co. · State Ex Rel. Thomas v. Daues
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have generally ruled inadmissible on the issue of negligence on the part of defendant in a negligence action, or of contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff, at the time of the injury complained of, evidence of similar prior acts of negligence.”
2 later decisions 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.