Harrill v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
168 F. 187 · 1909
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Whitney v. Wyman · McDonald v. Hovey · Wells Company v. Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Company · Stanton v. New York & Eastern Railway Co. · Standard Oil Co. of Ky. v. Hawkins
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The'more reasonable rule, the rule sustained by the Supreme Court and by the great weight of authority, undoubtedly is that a municipality which is invested with the power and charged with the duty to make and repair its streets and.sidewalks is liable to any individual for the injury which he sustains from, its negligence in the exercise of this power or in the discharge of this duty. * * * But the Supreme Court of the state of Arkansas had adopted and affirmed the converse of this rule prior to the enactment in the Indian Territory of chapter 29 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Laws of Arkansas. * * * The adoption of a statute or a law previously in force in some other jurisdiction is presumed to be the adoption of the interpretation thereof which had been theretofore placed upon it by the judicial tribunal whose duty it was to construe it.””
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.