Laurent v. Bernier’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2024
4 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 Bullock v. Babcock
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (vol. 1, p. 162) defines a battery as ‘the unlawful touching the person of another by the aggressor himself or any other substance put in motion by him,’ and after citing several authorities, proceeds to say, ‘it must be either willfully committed or proceed from want of due care,’ and cites Str. 596, Hob. 134, Plowd, 19, 3 Wend., 391 .” (p. 431.)”
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.