McKinnon v. Vollmar’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Bostwick v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1903), Seneca Wire & Manufacturing Co. v. A. B. Leach & Co. (1928)
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Lyon v. Jerome · Law v. Grant · Ela v. American Merchants' Union Express Co. · Miner v. Medbury
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“quite immaterial that the defendants did not know at the time that such statement was false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“purely executive or ministerial, and the principal is bound by the acts of such subagent.”
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.