Collins v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Interfirst Bank-Houston, N.A. v. Quintana Petroleum Corp. (1985), Diffenderfer v. Scott (1892)
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.
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.
““In reference to this it is sufficient to say that in our own State it is held that the heir or ward under disability is not deprived of his action by any neglect on the part of the administrator or guardian to bring suit within due time.””
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.