Thomas McClanahan v. Richard Davis’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 170 · 1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1937
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Russell v. Clark's Executors · Sayward v. Carlson · Botsford v. Burr · Parker v. Carter · Brent v. Chapman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The complainant having, in our judgment, failed to set forth any foundation for relief, the right to the discovery, which is claimed as incidental, of course fails with it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Church v. Swetland
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.