Macy v. Lindley’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1982
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Buck v. Havens · Lake v. Jones · Nord v. Marty · Elliott v. Brazil Block Coal Co. · Smith v. Noe
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court * * * shall relieve a party from a judgment taken against him, through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect, and supply an omission in any proceedings on complaint or motion filed within two years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burd v. McCullough“Any person being under legal disabilities when the cause of action accrues may bring his action within two years after the disability is removed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burd v. McCullough
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.