Bost v. . Metcalfe’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Hayes v. City of Wilmington (1956), Greene v. Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, Inc. (1961)
2 district · 55 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who commit separate wrongs without concert of action or unity of purpose, when the acts are concurrent as to place and time and unite in setting in operation a single destructive and dangerous force which produces a single and indivisible injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“who act in concert in committing a wrong which results in injury to person or damage to property”
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.