Patton v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1961
18 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 Big Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Burke · Consolidation Coal Company v. Crislip · Moore v. Peet Bros. Manufacturing Co. · Consolidation Coal Co. v. Ditty · Broadway & Fourth Avenue Realty Co. v. Metcalfe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be entitled to greater compensation for a mere injury to his hand than for a complete severance thereof the appellee should have evidence to show, or from which it may reasonably be inferred, that his injury is of such nature as to more adversely affect his body, or his mind, or his sense of pain, or his ability to labor, or his opportunity to obtain employment, than would be the case had there been a complete sever ance.(Our emphasis.)”
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.