Rutherford v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Reed v. Styron (1961), Terrel v. Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. (1974)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 37 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 Gover v. Central Vermont Railway Co. · Aufderheide v. Fulk · Carpenter v. Gantzer · Wray v. Chandler · Martinez v. Vigil
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That evidence of the cost price of household goods or wearing apparel is admissible in an action for their loss is the rule. Of course, other circumstances must be taken into consideration, in arriving at their actual value... ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Smith
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.