Brook v. Gale’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1994
22 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present case there is no room for pretense that the defendant contemplated that the plaintiff would sustain any damage beyond that which would follow the loss of any kind of baggage; i. e., the value of the goods and the expense of a brief detention in endeavoring to find them, with interest. The defendant cannot be chargeable for the loss of dentist’s tools beyond what he would be liable to pay any other passenger for the loss of any goods of like value, unless he has especially agreed to be responsible for other loss or damage. Doctor Gale did not inform the defendant that he was a dentist; that his tools were set with diamonds and rubies, or that in case they should be lost he would be unable to pursue his avocation for six months or for one month; and hence the defendant did not contemplate any such risk in carrying him as a passenger upon his steamboat, with his valuable baggage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that the court could not sit in both counties at the same time, but it does not follow that it could not sit in one county, the court was sitting in Duval, and was therefore not sitting in St. Johns. The judge held the term in Duval at the time named in the law for that purpose, as we think he might lawfully do.”
1 later decision 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.