McLain v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Cooper v. Town of Pinedale (2000), In the Interest of Cra, a Minor Child. Db v. State (2016)
32 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 UNC Teton Exploration Drilling, Inc. v. Peyton · Jones Land & Livestock Co. v. Federal Land Bank of Omaha · Anderson v. Bommer · Miles v. CEC Homes, Inc. · Gulf Oil Corp. v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wlhen the determination of a matter is sought which, if provided, cannot have any practical effect on the existing controversy[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was not intended be available to benefit individual owners who sought enforcement of the covenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sole and exclusive right and authority to enforce compliance with the covenants,”
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.