Ericson v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2007
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Nelson v. Harrington · Carpenter v. Walker · Hales v. Raines · Randolph's Admr v. Snyder · Bechtel v. Chase
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““She sets forth a cause of action based on a violation of the duty of the defendant as a surgeon and the wrongs done to her by him in the negligent performance of an operation and that is manifestly one arising ex delicto.” (p. 208.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Updegraph““Here the averments in the count are those stated in an ordinary petition for malpractice and are such as to characterize it as an action ex delicto.’’ (p. 207.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Graham v. Updegraph““Within two years; * * * An action for Injury to the rights of another, niot arising on contract, and not hereinafter enumerated. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Hirshfield
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.