Starrett v. Pedersen’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lehman v. City of Shaker Heights · Bourne v. Whitman · Jones v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Lloyd v. North Carolina Railroad · State ex rel. Robertson v. New England Furniture & Carpet Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * A violator of a criminal law cannot recover for an injury to which his own criminality was a directly contributing cause, for the law on its civil side will not aid one seeking relief from the consequences of his own transgression.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. True v. Older
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.