Finlay McKinlay v. William Morrish’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 343 · 1858
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably Walker v. Dun (1887), Houseman v. Cargo of the Schooner North Carolina (1841)
11 federal appellate · 20 district · 1 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The libel and answer are directly at issue, and no answer could be made more responsive to the charges in a bill than this is. According, then, to the rules of pleading in admiralty, there is no necessity for doing so, nor are we permitted to consider much of the testimony in this regard. When litigants make their case in express allegations, and by express denials of them, and then introduce testimony inapplicable to the issues they have made, it is not a part of the case, unless as it shall inferentially bear upon evidence properly in it, upon which the parties rely for determination of their controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Bayonne
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.