Feary v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1941 · most notably Crawfordsville Trust Co. v. Ramsey (1912), Bodne v. Austin (1928)
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Tuttle v. George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. · Boor v. Lowrey · Hess v. Lowrey · Cutter v. Hamlen · Hamilton v. Feary
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled law that actions arising out of contracts, express or implied, will not survive, where the damages sustained by such breach are for injuries to the person, as mental anguish, pain of body, or injury to character. * * * It is true, as a general proposition, that actions in form ex contractu survive; but this is due rather to the substance of the action than its form.””
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.