Piper v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Twin Fires Investment, LLC v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (2005), National Shawmut Bank v. Johnson (1945)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 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 United States v. California Coöperative Canneries · Credits Commutation Company v. United States · Hoffman v. McClelland · Cutter v. Hamlen · United Zinc Companies v. Harwood
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The amount of damages seldom can be proved with the exactness of mathematical demonstration. Much must be left to estimate and judgment, sometimes upon meager evidence.”
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.