McCulloch v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2002
13 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 Sheets v. Selden's Lessee · Bemis v. Leonard · Griffith v. Bogert · Mygatt v. . Washburn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our law rejects fractions of a day. The effect is to render the day a sort of indivisible point, so that any act done in the compass of it is no more referable to any one than to any other portion of it; but the act and the day are co-extensive, and therefore the act cannot properly be said to be passed until the day is passed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]nd although courts do not on this account regard it with disfavor, yet when its provisions cannot be exactly enforced, but must be either slightly extended or slightly restricted, the fact that it takes away remedies is reason enough for preferring a strict interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule laid down in the older authorities ... that when the time starts from an event the day of its occurrence shall be counted....”
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.