McDonald v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably Serio v. Trainor (1916), McDonald v. Shaw (1909)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Russell v. Allen · Gilmer v. Stone · Woman's Union Missionary Society of America v. Mead · Biscoe v. Thweatt · Reilly v. Union Protestant Infirmary
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Uncertainty as to the individual beneficiaries is characteristic of a charitable use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakos v. Kryder
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.