McDonald v. Conniff’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably 51 Cal. 2d 177 - In Re Petersen (1958), The Title & Document Restoration Co. v. Kerrigan (1906)
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 In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District · City of Pasadena v. Stimson · In re the New York Elevated Railroad · Ferguson v. . Ross · In the Matter of the Application of Church
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that a law shall affect all people of the state in order that it may ho general, or that a statute concerning procedure shall be applies We to every action that may be brought in the courts of the state. A staute which affects all the individuals of a class is a general law, while one which relates to particular persons or things of a class is special. A statute regelating the rights of married women, or which affects all mining corporations, or confers rights upon municipal corporations of a certain class, or places restrictions upon all foreign corporations, is a general law. City of Pasadena v. Stimson, 91 Cal. 238 , 27 Pac. 604 ; In re Madera Irr. Dist., 92 Cal. 316 , 28 Pac. 272 , 675; Wheeler v. Philadelphia, 77 Pa. St. 348 ; Land Co. v. Soper, 39 Iowa, 112 ; In re New York El. R. Co., 70 N. Y. 350 ; In re Church, 92 N. Y. 1 ; Ferguson v. Ross, 126 N. Y. 459 , 27 N. E. 954 .””
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.