Rowe v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet (1974), Francis v. Southern Pacific Co. (1948)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Whitford v. . the Panama Railroad Company · Meekin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad · Holton v. Daly · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. O'Connor
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We must confess our inability to grasp the logic of any course of so-called reasoning through which the conclusion is drawn that the husband simply because he may live to suffer from a physical injury and thus become vested with a cause of action for the violation of his own personal right, has an implied power to release a cause of action — one which has not then accrued; one which may never accrue; one which from its very nature cannot accrue until his death; and one which, if it ever does accrue, will accrue in favor of his wife and be based solely upon a violation of a right vested solely in the wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodyear v. Davis
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.