Maxson v. McElhinney’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. (1964), Brown v. Hahn (1965)
6 federal appellate · 41 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 Rosenzweig v. Heller · Usher v. West Jersey R. · LaBar v. New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad · Roberts, Admr. v. Freihofer B. Co. · Dickinson v. Jones
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . non-joinder is the failure to include, in addition to those named, someone else who has a vital and direct interest in the controversy and whose interest cannot in law or in good conscience be severed from the parties named in the suit. . . .’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coxe v. Commonwealth
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.