Gorlitzer v. . Wolffberg’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1968
16 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 Hegerich v. . Keddie · Cregin v. . Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad Co. · Cregin v. . Brooklyn Crosstown R.R. 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the defendant died in 1910, it for the first time became necessary to determine whether the cause of action survived, and this question is very properly determined by reference to the statute in force at that date.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.