McMillan v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Bentley (1933), Lord v. Morris (1861)
3 federal appellate · 76 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative acts of the officer by which in the execution of process or otherwise he interferes with the property or rights of third persons, and not to mere omissions or neglect of official duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.