Duffy v. Hickey’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 1978 · most notably Baumgartner v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (1978), Cusimano v. A. S. Spiess Sales Co. (1923)
58 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 Steffen v. McNaughton · Mequet v. Algiers Mfg. Co. · Brenner v. Ford
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To. say that Flemming was merely going to supper, and therefore was on a mission of his own, is to lose sight of the main purpose he had in view.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cado v. Many
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.