Commonwealth v. Wampler’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1983
5 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 Carpenter v. Longan · Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Brunswick & Western Railroad · Shenandoah Land & Anthracite Coal Co. v. Clarke · Robinson v. Towns
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The distinction as to what does and what does not pass by incidental assignment is, in some instances, nice and difficult to draw; but, in order for it to pass, the incident must, in a legal sense, constitute a security for the debt, and that can hardly be predicated of a mere collateral right of action against a public officer for a quasi tort in failing to discharge an official duty although his misconduct may affect the value of the judgment. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heyer v. Kaufenberg““It will be seen from the foregoing definition and illustrations, that the distinguishing characteristic of an incident consists in the fact that it ‘usually or naturally and inseparably depends upon, appertains to, or follows’ its principal. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heyer v. Kaufenberg
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.