Rodgers v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1983
4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases a party who is injured by the wrongful acts of public officers is entitled to actual damages; but if the act be attended with malice, or done under aggravating circumstances and in violation of a plain right, the injured party may recover consequential and even punitory damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Jones
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.