Wayne v. Venable’s Empirical Analysis
260 F. 64 · 1919
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), Memphis Community School District v. Stachura (1986)
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Scott v. Donald · Thomas Swafford v. W a Templeton S H · Wiley v. Sinkler · Lesser Cotton Co. v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so valuable that damages are presumed from the wrongful deprivation of it without evidence of actual loss.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i)n the eyes of the law this right is so valuable that damages are presumed from the wrongful deprivation of it without evidence of actual loss of money, property, or any other valuable thing . . . .”
2 later decisions 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.