In re McDonough’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 360 · 1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1911
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 United States v. Wiltberger · Arthur v. Morrison · State v. . Giersch · State v. Oliver · People v. Crilley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case must be a strong one, indeed, wbieb would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially, in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest. To determine that a ease is within the intention of a statute, its language must authorize us to say so. It would he dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case, which is within the reason or mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of egual atrocity, or of kindred character, with those which are enumerated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tlio Intention of tlie Legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction.””
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.