French v. Deane’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Davis v. Hearst (1911), Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. (1984)
2 district · 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 Cummings v. The State of Missouri · Chicago v. Sheldon · City v. Lamson · Murphy v. Hobbs · Hodges v. Bales
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.
“Such damages rest upon the right to punish and not the right of the injured party to compensation for the wrong done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lira v. Davis
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.