Augustus v. Goodrum’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1979
11 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 Blue Grass Traction Co. v. Ingles · Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Ross · Illinois Central Railway Co. v. Basham · Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. v. Johnson · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Parsons
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no evidence in this case that plaintiff’s power to earn money has been permanently impaired, but all the evidence is to the effect that the impairment, if any, is temporary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carnes v. Day““The evidence of permanency of the injury must be direct, positive, and satisfactory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carnes v. Day
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.