Cort v. Steen’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably 41 Cal. 2d 859 - Grant v. McAuliffe (1953), 71 Cal. 2d 184 - In Re Dapper (1969)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 30 Cal. 2d 388 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Jacobus v. . Colgate · 26 Cal. 2d 297 - Sekt v. Justice's Court · Hunt v. Authier · San Joaquin & Kings River Canal & Irrigation Co. v. Stevinson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A thing in action arising out a wrong which results in physical injury to the person or out of a statute imposing liability for such injury shall not abate by reason of the death of the wrongdoer or any other person liable for damages for such injury, ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.