Chrisman v. Carney’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■‘The first was at common law an action of trespass, and the other an action on (he case. The form of action being now abolished, they may be joined under the class of injuries to the person, but the requisites to constitute the injury, and the proof necessary to be made to sustain either paragraph, are the same as formerly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockrill v. Butler
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.