Galusca v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Vance v. Vance (1980), Drug Fair of Maryland, Inc. v. Smith (1971)
35 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 Heinze v. Murphy · Sloan v. Edwards · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Strube · Albert v. Albert · Baltimore Transit Co. v. Faulkner
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has formulated the rule that, in the trial of a suit for damages for assault, evidence that the defendant has been tried and convicted for the assault in a criminal prosecution is inadmissible in chief for the purpose of proving the fact that the assault was committed, but such evidence may be admitted on cross-examination of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any nonexpert may testify to facts coming under his observation, even though the facts are such as are provable ordinarily by experts.”
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.