McClay v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2013
5 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 Bronk v. Becker · Hale v. Andrews · Boenig v. Hornberg
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duties of the supervisors, when acting as fence-viewers, are judicial in their nature, and notice is necessary to give them jurisdiction to make an apportionment of a partition fence, and also to make an appraisal of the value of the same, or the repairs thereof, and without such notice the proceedings are void, unless the parties voluntarily appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Althoff
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.