Resavage v. Davies’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), Amodio v. Cunningham (1980)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Wagner v. International Railway Co. · Spade v. Lynn & Boston Railroad · 5 E.H. Smith 107 - Mitchell v. . Rochester Railway Co. · Mahnke v. Moore · State v. Hatfield
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no basis to differentiate the fear caused the plaintiff for himself and for his children, because there is no possibility of division of an emotion which was instantly evoked by the common and simultaneous danger of the three.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.