Douglass v. State ex rel. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1960
20 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on People ex rel. Dorsey v. Smyth · Glascock v. Lyons · People on rel. Morton v. Tieman · Howard v. State ex rel. Vawter · Bentley v. Phelps
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rule which measures the damages upon a breach of contract for wages or for freight, or for the lease of buildings, has no application. In these cases the party aggrieved must seek other employment or other articles for carriage, or other tenants, and the damages recovered will be the difference (164) between the amounts stipulated and the amount actually received or paid. But no such rule can be applied to public offices of personal trust and confidence, the duties of which are not purely ministerial or clerical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howerton v. . Tate
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.