Sobolewski v. German’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. (1950), 88 Ga. App. 519 - Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc. (1953)
8 federal appellate · 19 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 Cravens v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Emerson v. Taylor · Kosciolek v. Portland Ry., L. & P. Co. · Clawson v. Primrose · Gibbs v. Larrabee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The common law of England, as well as so much of the statute law as has been heretofore adopted in practice in this state, shall remain in force, unless they shall be altered by a future law of the Legislature; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and privileges contained in this Constitution, and the declaration of rights, * * * agreed to by this convention.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Catalfano v. Higgins““No action brought to recover damages for injuries to the person by negligence or default shall abate by reason of the death of the plaintiff, but the personal representatives of the deceased may be substituted as plaintiff and prosecute the suit to final judgment and satisfaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is apparent, of course, that the cause of action in this case is embraced within the provision at the end of the statute above quoted [the copias exception clause, Section 4093] as being ‘an injury to the person accompanied by violence’ * * (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yonner v. Adams
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.