Passinger v. . Thorburn’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1972 · most notably Cooper v. Schlesinger (1884), Grupe v. Glick (1945)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““His engagement was, that the seed he sold was Bristol cabbage seed, and would produce Bristol cabbages. It may therefore have been reasonably supposed to have been in the contemplation of the parties that if the seed was not Bristol cabbage seed, and would not consequently produce Bristol cabbages, that damage would necessarily accrue to the plaintiff, and would be a natural consequence of such breach.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poutra v. Sapp
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.