Leddy v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1967 · most notably Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hilligoss (1908), State Ex Rel. Cox v. Maryland Electric Railways Co. (1915)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Goss v. Ellison
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ If the claim is made against one and released, all who may be liable are discharged, whether the one released was liable or not. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.