Over v. Schiffling’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Falvey (1885), 169 Ind. App. 413 - Weenig v. Wood (1976)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Goodwin v. State · Mescall v. Tully · Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Buchanan · City of Logansport v. Uhl · Neidefer v. Chastain
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The letter was not a privileged communication. The information it professes to contain was volunteered, and the purpose for which it was conveyed to the appellee’s employer was solely for the benefit of the writer, and was not intended to benefit the employer by giving him in good faith and for a just purpose, information necessary for his protection against a knavish servant.” (Emphasis supplied).”
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.