Longenecker v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2024
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Hefley v. Baker · Craig v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Wright v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From every direct invasion of the person or property of another, the law infers some damage, without proof of actual injury.”
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.