McKey v. McKean’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell (1958), Kane v. Johnson (1947)
31 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 Eshelman v. Rawalt · Wilkinson v. People · Dillman v. Nadelhoffer · Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co. · Pasedach v. Auw
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.
““This practice has been repeatedly condemned by this court. The testimony of an attorney in a case under such circumstances is entitled to little or no weight or credit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.