McGowan v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Means v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Murphy Ex Rel. Murphy v. Land · Gathright v. Pendegraft · Graeff Ex Rel. Graeff v. Baptist Temple of Springfield
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 giving of an instruction in violation of the provisions of this rule shall constitute error, its prejudicial effect to be judicially determined”
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.