McCallister v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Branch v. Faust (1888), Stockwell v. State ex rel. Johnson (1884)
37 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 Stanley v. Sutherland · Caress v. Foster · Miller v. Billingsly · Columbus, Chicago, & Indiana Central Railway Co. v. Powell · Frazer v. Boss
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential idea of a charge is that it is authoritative as an exposition of the law, which the jury are bound by their oath and by moral obligation to obey.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“■ “Instructions proper are directions in reference to the law of the case.””
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.