Dorothy I. MacPherson v. Charles R. MacPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1998
8 federal appellate ·
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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · In re Whittington · Emerson v. Emerson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] contract is presumed to be made with reference to the law of the place where it was entered into unless it appears that it was entered into in good faith with reference to the law of some other state. [Deaton v. Vise, 186 Tenn. 364, 372 , 210 S.W.2d 665, 668 (1948)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.