McLaughlin v. Yingling’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Nickel v. Janda (1925), Scott v. Scott (1928)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Murray v. Boston & Maine Railroad · People ex rel. City of Bloomington v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Quinlan v. Wickman · Bacus v. Burns · Hall v. Hall
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed, nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamill v. Hawks““It seems clear that the statute, supra, is declaratory of the rule at common law, * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Melcher v. Camp
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.