McKenna v. Fisk’s Empirical Analysis
42 U.S. 241 · 1843
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Huntington v. Attrill (1892), Printz v. United States (1997)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Duvall v. Craig · Gardner v. Thomas · Glen v. Hodges
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f A becomes indebted to B, or commits a tort upon his person or upon his personal property in Paris, an action in either case may be maintained against A in England, if he is there found . [A]s to transitory actions, there is not a colour of doubt but that any action which is transitory may be laid in any county in England, though the matter arises beyond the seas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Crimes are in their nature local, and the jurisdiction of crimes is local. And so as to the rights of real property, the subject being fixed- and immovable. But personal injuries are of a transitory nature, and sequuntur forwn rei.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the courts in England have been open in cases of trespass other than trespass upon real property ... for trespasses committed within the realm and out of the realm”
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.