Allen v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2001
24 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 Alemite Mfg. Corp. v. Staff · Cave v. Cooley · Garver v. Public Service Company of New Mexico · Vickrey v. Dunivan · Summerford v. Board of Com'rs.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All civil actions commenced in the district courts shall be brought and shall be commenced in counties as follows, and not otherwise: D. (1) When lands or any interest in lands are the object of any suit in whole or in part, such suit shall be brought in the county where the land or any portion thereof is situate. . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`no court can make a decree which will bind any one but a party; . . . it cannot lawfully enjoin the world at large, no matter how broadly it words its decree. If it assumes to do so, the decree is pro tanto brutum fulmen. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all other persons, including Ladd S. Gordon, Director of the New Mexico Game Commission.”
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.