Cover v. Critcher’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1986
5 federal appellate · 11 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 Henshaw v. Miller · Lee's Adm'r v. Hill · Mumpower v. City of Bristol
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.
““If, however, there were any doubt that the cause of action asserted in the present case survives at common law, it would seem clear that the action was rightly revived by virtue of the statute already alluded to. Code, § 2655 [now § 5385], “Under that statute, which is an extension of the statute 4 Edw. Ill, c. 7, de bonis asportatis, an action of trespass, or trespass on the case, may be maintained by or against a personal representative, not only for the taking and carrying away of goods, but for any damage to estate, either done or suffered by the decedent. It is a remedial statute, and is, therefore, to receive, as the English statute has always received, a liberal construction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he plaintiff’s use of the property and not the property itself was affected by the act of which he complains.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not directly injure the property itself. . . .”
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.