The Western Maid’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Standard Oil Co of New Jersey v. Southern Pac Co, 551 So. 2d 165 - Davis v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 9 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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 In Re State of New York et al Petition of Walsh et al · The Lottawanna · Frisbie v. United States · David Kawananakoa v. Ellen Albertina Polyblank · Robert Workman v. Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York a
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The United States has not consented to be sued for torts, and therefore it cannot be said that in a legal sense the United States has been guilty of a tort. For a tort is a tort in a legal sense only because the law has made it so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.