Gallagher v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Mezullo v. Maletz (1954), Chandler v. Dunlop (1942)
40 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 Union Pac Ry Co v. Wyler · Massaletti v. Fitzroy · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Renn · Hanlon v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Welosky
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The circumstance that at the time of the allowance of the amendment the cause of action therein stated would have been barred by the statute if an action had been then first instituted because not commenced within twelve months after the violation of the law of the road did not as matter of law prevent the allowance of the amendment. It has been said that this factor might well be considered a sufficient cause for its being granted, for otherwise the plaintiff might .lose a meritorious claim.” “(It) may furnish a reason for it.” Peterson -a. Cadogan, 313 Mass. 133, 134 . *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantin v. Moriarty
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.