McClung v. Delta Shipbuilding Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2009
3 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 Home Services v. Marvin · McClung v. Delta Shipbuilding Co. · 34 So. 2d 70 - McClung v. Delta Shipbuilding Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever the mechanics of our law or the technicalities involved therein work a hardship or, in the final analysis are so designed as to defeat the ultimate ends of justice then, in that event, ‘the mechanics or technicalities’ of the law should be abandoned in order that the ends of justice might, in every instance, be served.”
1 later decision 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.