McMillon v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1986
12 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 Benedict v. W. T. Hadlow Co. · Standley v. Arnow · King v. Goodson · Wylly v. Sanford Loan & Trust Co. · Holliday v. Steele
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * While the interpolation of the word ‘severally’ in the return might be more exact, we cannot expect our sheriffs to be grammarians of the ripest scholarship, nor did the old common law so require. The return in our opinion sufficiently shows that a copy of the summons was delivered to each of the defendants. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to compel the courts to treat as waste paper judgments founded upon such returns.”
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.