Ormsby v. Executors’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 387 · 1933
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 15 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. (1934), 41 Cal. 2d 859 - Grant v. McAuliffe (1953)
28 federal appellate · 15 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChase v. Ormsby (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co · Davis v. Mills · Slater v. Mexican National Railroad · Cuba Railroad v. Crosby · Tennessee Coal Iron Railroad Company v. Wiley George
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a claim for damages survives the death of the wrongdoer is determined by the law of the place of the wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As there had been no suit, no question of revivor is presented.””
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.