Drum v. . Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1985
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 Hill v. Winsor · Rolin v. . Tobacco Co. · Starnes Ex Rel. Starnes v. Albion Manufacturing Co. · Sawyer v. Roanoke Railroad & Lumber Co. · Edwards v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the one case he is presumed to intend the consequences of his unlawful act, but in the other, while the act is lawful, it must be performed in a careful manner, otherwise it becomes unlawful, if a prudent man in the exercise of proper care can foresee that it will naturally or probably cause injury to another, though it is not necessary that the evil result should be, in form , foreseen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inflicting a very painful and serious wound, and causing partial, if not total, blindness”
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.