Thompson v. Ellsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1943
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a principle of general’application, in actions against wrong-doers, that the plaintiff may recover, by way of damages, at least all that he has lost up to the commencement of the suit through the wrongful act for which the defendant is sued (Rundle v. Little, 6 Q. B. 178); and it is also a general rule of law that damages resulting from one and the same cause of action must be assessed and recovered once for all, and that actions cannot he repeated from day to day, as the diurnal effects of the one original wrong happen to mature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blackman v. Simpson
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.