The Harrisburg’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 199 · 1886
Citation profile
589 federal appellate · 181 district · 285 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,661 later decisions (109 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation (1971), American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah (1974)
589 federal appellate · 181 district · 285 state decisions — followed in 36 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 Dennick v. Railroad Co. · Insurance Company v. Brame · Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad · Ford v. Monroe
Cited together with Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia · The M/v 'Tungus' v. Skovgaard E · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · The Osceola
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 1,661 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he liability and the remedy are created by the same statutes, and the limitations of the remedy are, therefore to be treated as limitations of the right.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The husband, widow, children, or parents of the deceased, and no other relative,’ * * * ‘may maintain an action for and recover damages for the death thus occasioned.’ ‘The action shall be brought within one year after the death, and not thereafter.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'that by the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in death.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.