Tracy v. Hacket’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1993 · most notably Elliott v. Roach (1980), 115 Ind. App. 10 - Wayne Works v. Hicks Body Co. (1944)
32 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 Platter v. City of Seymour · Indianapolis Sun Co. v. Horrell · Mosier v. Stoll · Hacker v. Blake · Mahoney v. Robbins
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no claim on behalf of appellant that under the evidence, which we need not recount, he would be entitled to a reversal for failure to assess substantial damages; but it is insisted that for the invasion of his legal right by the defamatory publication, which has not been justified he was entitled to a verdict for nominal damages. Assuming this claim to be correct, it does not necessarily follow that the appellant is entitled to a reversal of the judgment (refusing to grant new trial) on appeal.” See also: Morin et al. v. Houston Press Co., 103 S. W. (2d) 1087 (19-37, Texas); Crawford v. Bergen, 91 Iowa 675 , 60 N. W. 205 (1894), 53 C. J. S. 359, and 33 Am. Jur. 189 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huber v. Patriot Co.
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.