Cassidy v. Berkovitz’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Henderson v. United States Radiator Corp. (1935), Baptist Health v. Murphy (2010)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Stone v. Winn · Louisville Bridge Co. v. L. & N. R. R. · Jefferson, Noyes & Brown v. Western National Bank · Elswick v. Matney · Coles' Adm'x v. Illinois Central Railway Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The injuries to appellee and to his horse and wagon were the result of the same accident, and constituted but a single cause of action against the defendants which could and should have been included in one action against them. It is against the policy of the law to permit a plaintiff to split his cause of action and institute two or more actions for different parts thereof, and it is a well-established principle that, where a plaintiff has filed a suit and had trial upon a cause of action, the judgment rendered therein is a bar to another proceeding based upon the same cause of action; that it was his duty in one action to set up all items of damages which resulted to him from the accident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sprague v. Adams
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.