Squier v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1906 · most notably Wade v. Leroy (1857), Alabama Great Southern R. R. v. Arnold (1887)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That “when the damages actually sustained do not necessarily arise from the act complained of, and consequently are not implied by law, in order to prevent surprise to the defendant the plaintiff must state in his declaration the particular damage that he has sustained, or he will not be permitted to give evidence of it upon the trial.””
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.