Wilson v. Eberle’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1995
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n v. Thomas · George Prentice and George Weissinger Copartners Doing Business Under the Style and Firm of Prentice Weissinger v. Platoff Zane's Administrator · 107 F. Supp. 683 - United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Church · Van Ness v. Van Ness · Continental Casualty Co. v. Little
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that nominal damages are recoverable where a legal right is to be vindicated against a wrong or invasion of that right which has produced no actual loss or damage; for the law infers some damage from the invasion of that right. Such nominal damages are awarded, not as compensation for the injury, but merely in recognition of the plaintiff’s right and of the technical invasion thereof by the defendant. And where there is found any invasion of such right, whether actual damage is caused or not, at least nominal damages should be recovered.”
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.