McLennan v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Muench v. Public Service Commission (1952), 60 Wis. 2d 700 - State v. Jackman (1973)
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 Hardin v. Jordan · Barney v. Keokuk · Illinois Cent Co v. State of Illinois City of Chicago · Yates v. Milwaukee · Diedrich v. Northwestern Union Railway Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot abdicate its trust in relation to them, and, while it may make a grant of them for public purposes, it may not make an irrepealable one; and any attempted grant of the kind would be held, if not absolutely void on its face, as subject to revocation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he state has no proprietary interest in them,”
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.