the Executors of John McDonogh v. Mary Murdoch’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 367 · 1853
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Helvering v. New York Trust Co. (1934), Jones v. Habersham (1882)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Runyan v. Lessee of Coster · Lane v. Vick · M'Keen v. Delancy's Lessee · First Municipality of New Orleans v. McDonough
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That without a positive prohibition municipal corporations in Louisiana should be incapacitated from receiving legacies for the public purposes of health, education and charity, seems to me to be repugnant to all sound ideas of policy, and to the reason of the law.””
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.