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← 79 R.I. 55 - McCarthy v. McAloon

McCarthy v. McAloon’s Empirical Analysis

1951

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2012

11 state decisions

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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 Morley v. Police Commissioner · Fletcher v. Tuttle · Joughin v. Parks, Judge · Fletcher v. City of Paris · Judd v. Town of Fox Lake

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““In this state it was long ago settled that ‘Suits for the public should be placed in public and responsible hands.’ O’Brien v. Board of Aldermen, 18 R.I. 113, 116 . The public officer vested with that authority is the attorney general of the state. Only he may sue to redress a purely public wrong except in those instances where one of the public who is injured has a distinct personal legal interest different from that of the public at large * * *.” Id. at 62, 83 A.2d at 78 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Berberian v. Solomon
  2. ““The administration of all the fiscal, prudential and municipal affairs of said city, with the government thereof, except as hereinafter specially provided, shall be vested in one officer to be called the mayor, a council of six aldermen, to be called the board of aldermen, and a council of eighteen persons, to be called the common council, and which board of aldermen and common council together shall be called the city council.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Powers v. City of Pawtucket

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.