McFadden v. Shore’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1996
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3931 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 50 U.S.C. App. § 510 · 50 U.S.C. App. § 925
Relies on Boone v. Lightner · Metropolitan-Columbia Stockholders, Inc. v. City of New York · Rovinski v. Rowe · Eckman v. Grear · 33 F. Supp. 529 - Skidmore v. Green
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The period of military service shall not be included in computing any period now or hereafter to be limited by any law, regulation, or order for the bringing of any action or proceeding in any court, board, bureau, commission, department, or other agency of government by or against any person in military service or by or against his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, whether such cause of action or the right or privileg® to institute such action or proceeding shall have accrued prior to or during the period of such service, nor shall any part of such period which occurs after the date of enactment of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act Amendments of 1942 * * * be included in computing any period now or hereafter provided by any law for the redemption o'f real property sold or forfeited to enforce any obligation, tax, or assessment-””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act must be liberally construed to fully protect those who have entered the armed forces to protect this nation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Phillips
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.