McDonald v. Prowdley’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brownell v. Stjepan Bozo Carija · Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board · Goosman v. A. Duie Pyle, Inc. · Hauger v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · McNelley v. Perry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the deposition of Barbara Landis has not been taken, there is no showing of a possible inconsistency in her testimony, and this court is of the opinion that discovery of her statement for impeachment purposes, when nothing now exists to be impeached, would be too great an extension of the ‘good cause’ requirement, under the facts of this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulton v. Swift
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.