McDaniels v. McDaniels’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably Woodhouse v. Woodhouse Et Ux. (1925), Putro v. Baker (1966)
24 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Pettibone v. Phelps · Woodruff v. Richardson · Selleck v. Sugar Hollow Turnpike 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The friends of the plaintiff who thus approached the jury were guilty of a flagrant violation of the law, and the jurors who suffered themselves to be so approached, though they may not have meant any wrong, were also guilty. * * * The plaintiff was unaware of these transactions; * * * but it does not follow that he could hold a verdict which is the result of a trial corrupted, though without his fault, by a shameful disregard of familiar rules, which are necessary to a decent administration of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true that a verdict should not be set aside for every trifling error of law by the court, or for every trifling misconduct of a juror which occurs without the fault of the prevailing party, but it should be whenever the error or misconduct renders it reasonably doubtful whether the verdict has been legitimately procured.””
1 later decision 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.