State v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably State Ex Rel. Bacich v. Huse (1936), Fountain Park Co. v. Hensler (1927)
25 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Hayes v. State of Missouri · Nichols v. Walter · State ex rel. Board of Courthouse & City Hall Com'rs v. Cooley · Bailey v. People
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only alleged criminal offense, with the commission of which the appellant has been charged, is that he did not pay the inspection fee. He cannot be fined nor imprisoned for any such act, as it cannot be made a criminal offense.”
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.